Description
Book SynopsisThe tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In
The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Contested Lives, Contesting Lives
- Ricia Anne Chansky and Laura J. Beard
- Section One: Tracing Patterns
- Dakobijigaade mii miinawaa Aaba’igaade Gichimookomaanakiing: Tied and Untied in America
- Margaret Noodin
- Negotiating National Identity and Well-Being in US Black Women’s Diaries
- Joycelyn K. Moody
- The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Revision
- Daniel Worden
- “Strange Juxtapositions”: Elliott Erwitt’s Visual Diary of Cold War America
- Steven Hoelscher
- We Have Never Been a Nation of Immigrants: Refugee Temporality as American Identity
- Elizabeth Rodrigues
- “A small flashlight in a great dark space”: Elizabeth Warren, Autobiography, and Populism
- Rachael McLennan
- Indians in Monumental Places: Heid Erdich and Jeff Thomas
- Laura J. Beard
- Juneteenth
- Angela Ards
- Archival Intervention: Surviving the “Savage Splintering” in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians
- Hertha D. Sweet Wong
- Section Two: Facing Forward
- Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
- Katie Hogan
- White Privilege and J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy
- Stephanie Li)
- Getting Schooled: Responses to Education as Neoliberal Identity-Formation in US Life Narratives
- Megan Brown
- Disabling Birth: Prognostic Certainty and the Gestating Citizen of the Contemporary Midwifery Movement
- Ally Day
- Afterword
- Days of Reckoning: Prospects for Life Narrative 2020
- Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
- Contributors
- Index
