Constituting Americans cultural anxiety and narrative form / [electronic resource] :
Priscilla Wald.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
- xiv, 390 p.
- New Americanists .
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.
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".
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Group identity--History.--United States Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--United States. Political culture--History.--United States American literature--History and criticism.--19th century American literature--History and criticism.--20th century National characteristics, American, in literature. Group identity in literature. Anxiety in literature.