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Author Wald, Priscilla.

Title Constituting Americans [electronic resource] : cultural anxiety and narrative form / Priscilla Wald.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

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Description xiv, 390 p.
Series New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.
Contents 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".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Group identity -- United States -- History.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- United States.
Political culture -- United States -- History.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822381907
0822381907
0822315505 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780822315506 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0822315475 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780822315476 (paper : acid-free paper)

 
    
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