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Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and present.Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, these essays are united by three interrelated concerns: ideas of origin (where does'American literature'begin?), ideas of nation (what does'American literature'mean?), and ideas of race and gender (what does'American literature'include and exclude and how?). Work by writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Bharati Mukherjee, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Américo Paredes, and Toni Morrison are discussed from several theoretical perspectives, using a variety of methodologies. Issues of the'frontier'and the'border'as well as those of coloniality and postcoloniality are explored. In each case, these essays emphasize the

Author

Michael Moon (undifferentiated), Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822315391

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, Literary Criticism