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,
Americo 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 ideological nature of national identity and, more specifically,
the centrality of race and gender to our concept of
nationhood.
Collected from recent issues of American Literature, with three new
essays added, Subjects and Citizens charts the new directions being
taken in American literary studies.Contributors. Daniel Cooper
Alarcon, Lori Askeland, Stephanie Athey, Nancy Bentley, Lauren
Berlant, Michele A. Birnbaum, Kristin Carter-Sanborn, Russ
Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Julie Ellison, Sander L. Gilman, Karla F.
C. Holloway, Annette Kolodny, Barbara Ladd, Lora Romero, Ramon
Saldivar, Maggie Sale, Siobhan Senier, Timothy Sweet, Maurice
Wallace, Elizabeth Young
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