Mourning the Nation to Come : Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures / Jillian J. Sayre

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sayre, Jillian J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism in literature.

Latin American literature.

Indigenous peoples in literature.

Grief in literature.

Death in literature.

American literature.

Brazilan literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Brazilan literature.

Latin American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 250 pages)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 2020

Summary:

"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"--

Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains.

Contents:

Introduction: The Book Is a Grave

Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body

Books Buried in the Earth

Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History

The Shadow of the (m)Other

Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation

Coda: What Remains.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-243

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin, 2010

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807172841

9780807172858

0807172855

OCLC:

1273307153