{"product_id":"constituting-americans-9780822315476","title":"Constituting Americans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Priscilla Wald’s groundbreaking project is a study of American cultural identity in the context of theories of subjectivity and nationalism. \u003ci\u003eConstituting Americans\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important, because controversial, intervention in debates over intercultural analysis of African American and ‘ethinc’ literatures.\"—Susan Gilman, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\"With beautiful sensitivity to language, Wald offers a unique blend of nuanced textual analysis and historical interpretation. The result is a provocative and well researched account of national stories and the concept of personhood.\"—Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eConstituting Americans\u003c\/i\u003e does more than immensely enrich current scholarship on nationalism, subjectivity, and U.S. literature and culture. By ranging in its objects of study from law, journalism, psychology, and history to sociology and political documents, it also sets a standard for the contribution of literary criticism to interdisciplinary study.” -- Maggie Sale * American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass ,and the Politics of Self-Definition 14\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"As From a Faithful Mirror\": \u003ci\u003ePierre, Our Nig\u003c\/i\u003e, and Literary Nationalism 106\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"The Strange Meaning of Being Black\": \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e and the Narrative of History 172\u003cbr\u003e 4. A \"Losing-Self Sense\": \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Americans\u003c\/i\u003e and the Anxiety of Identity 237\u003cbr\u003e Coda: An American \"We\" 299\u003cbr\u003e Notes 305\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 353\u003cbr\u003e Index 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406015439191,"sku":"9780822315476","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822315476.jpg?v=1730494249","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constituting-americans-9780822315476","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}