Constituting Americans : Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form.

Ever since the founders drafted ""We the People, "" ""we"" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-n...

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Main Author: Wald, Priscilla
Other Authors: Pease, Donald E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: North Carolina : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:New Americanists.
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520 |a Ever since the founders drafted ""We the People, "" ""we"" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to this project; in doing so, it revises the traditional narrative of U.S. literary history, restoring an essential chapter to the story of an emerging American cultural identity. In diverse ways, very different writers-including Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, W.E.B. 
505 0 |a Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition; 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism; 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History; 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity; Coda: An American "We"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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