National identities and post-Americanist narratives / Donald E. Pease, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pease, Donald E.

Series:

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.

Minorities in motion pictures.

Minorities in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

United States--Intellectual life.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.

Summary:

National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", people experiencing homelessness) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity."This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake.Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson

Contents:

National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts and Postnational Narratives / Donald E. Pease

Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac

The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy / Ross Posnock

As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age / John T. Matthews

Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy / Alan Nadel

Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement / Robert J. Corber

Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman

Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative / Patrick O'Donnell

Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime / Rob Wilson

On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia / Daniel O'Hara

Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad / John Carlos Rowe

Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene / Kathryne V. Lindberg.

Notes:

"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface, index, and essays by Lindberg and Rowe as vol. 19, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822314929

0822314924

9780822377757

0822377756

OCLC:

893680976