Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what
constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars
have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably
demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the
voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as
well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within
the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost
voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist,
and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in
the organizing principles and self-understanding of the field of
American Studies.
Originally published as a special issue of boundary 2, the essays
gathered here discuss writers as diverse as Kate Chopin, Frederick
Douglass, Emerson, Melville, W. D. Howells, Henry James, W. E. B.
DuBois, and Mark Twain, plus the historical figure John Brown. Two
major sections devoted to the theory of romance and to
cultural-historical analyses emphasize the political perspective of
"New Americanist" literary and cultural study.
"Contributors." William E. Cain, Wai-chee Dimock, Howard
Horwitz, Gregory S. Jay, Steven Mailloux, John McWilliams, Susan
Mizruchi, Donald E. Pease, Ivy Schweitzer, Priscilla Wald, Michael
Warner, Robert Weimann
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