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In the Name of National Security
Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America
Häftad, 1993
398 kr
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In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.As Corber shows, throughout the 1950s a cast of mind …
Coyote Country
Fictions of the Canadian West
Häftad, 1994
332 kr
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For most North Americans-Canadians as well as Americans-the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson shows in this groundbreaking study, a number of Canada’s most interesting and experimental Western …
Revisionary Interventions Into the Americanist Canon
Inbunden, 1994
1529 kr
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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 …
First Woman in the Republic
A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Inbunden, 1994
2248 kr
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For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a …
National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives
Häftad, 1994
647 kr
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National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the …
Revisionary Interventions Into the Americanist Canon
Häftad, 1994
510 kr
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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 …
Constituting Americans
Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
Häftad, 1994
510 kr
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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 …
American Anatomies
Theorizing Race and Gender
Häftad, 1995
376 kr
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In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary clichÉs about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a clichÉ in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about …
Errant Art of Moby-Dick
The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies
Häftad, 1995
510 kr
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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its …
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
Av Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo
Häftad, 1995
348 kr
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Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics-a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state-has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this collection explore the relationship …
Containment Culture
American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 1995
443 kr
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Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, …
Italian Signs, American Streets
The Evolution of Italian American Narrative
Inbunden, 1996
1464 kr
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In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. GardaphÉ presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective-variously …
Passing and the Fictions of Identity
Inbunden, 1996
1330 kr
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Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of …
Passing and the Fictions of Identity
Häftad, 1996
387 kr
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Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of …
Male Call
Becoming Jack London
Häftad, 1996
647 kr
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When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by …
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Häftad, 1997
445 kr
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Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how whites …
Lydia Maria Child Reader
Häftad, 1997
395 kr
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From the 1820s to the 1870s, Lydia Maria Child was as familiar to the American public as her Thanksgiving song, "Over the river and through the wood, / To grandfather’s house we go," remains today. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Child did not figure prominently as …
Homosexuality in Cold War America
Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity
Häftad, 1997
387 kr
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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on …
Race and the Subject of Masculinities
Av Harilaos Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel
Häftad, 1997
443 kr
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Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity. The essays in Race and the Subject of Masculinities address this …
Home Fronts
Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States
Av Lora Romero
Häftad, 1997
298 kr
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Unlike studies of nineteenth-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero’s Home Fronts shows the many, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. …
Women's Camera Work
Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
Häftad, 1998
456 kr
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Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists …
Sign of the Cannibal
Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader
Inbunden, 1998
1432 kr
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In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory. These investigations not only explore mid–nineteenth century …
Other Henry James
Inbunden, 1998
1464 kr
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In The Other Henry James, John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that …
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
The Game of Slipknot
Häftad, 1999
445 kr
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Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first …
Other Henry James
Häftad, 1998
332 kr
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In The Other Henry James, John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that …
National Manhood
Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
Häftad, 1998
632 kr
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National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and …
First Woman in the Republic
A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Häftad, 1998
773 kr
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For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a …
Seventies Now
Culture As Surveillance
Häftad, 1999
443 kr
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Most would agree that American culture changed dramatically from the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet the 1970s, the decade “in between,” is still somehow thought of as a cultural wasteland. In The Seventies Now Stephen Paul Miller debunks this notion by examining a wide range of political and cultural …
Utopia and Cosmopolis
Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
Inbunden, 1998
1432 kr
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When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a …
Utopia and Cosmopolis
Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
Häftad, 1998
395 kr
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When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a …
