Research Catalog

Title

Subjects and citizens : nation, race, and gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill / edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moon, Michael.
• Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-

Description

vi, 529 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Subjects & citizens

Subjects

• Politics and literature > United States > History
• Literature and society > United States > History
• Race relations in literature
• Sex role in literature
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Authors, American > Political and social views
• Gender identity in literature
• Ethnic relations in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson -- Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcon -- Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton / Julie Ellison -- Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism / Lora Romero -- Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan -- Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance / Maggie Sale -- Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery / Russ Castronovo -- White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction / Nancy Bentley -- Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet --
• Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace -- Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman -- Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender / Elizabeth Young -- "Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race / Michele A. Birnbaum -- "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd -- Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: Americo Paredes's The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories / Ramon Saldivar -- Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland -- A Zuni Raconteur Dons the Junco Shirt: Gender and Narrative Style in the Story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier -- "We Murder Who We Were": Jasmine and the Violence of Identity / Kristin Carter-Sanborn -- The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant --
• The Body Politic / Karla F. C. Holloway.

ISBN

• 0822315394 (acid-free paper)
• 0822315297 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

95010297

OCLC

• 32167062
• ocm32167062

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries