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

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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...

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Main Author: Wald, Priscilla
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wilson, Harriet E., > 1825-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Criticism and interpretation.
James, William, > 1842-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Criticism and interpretation.
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.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Wilson, Harriet E., > 1825-1900.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
James, William, > 1842-1910.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
American literature.
Group identity.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects.
Political culture.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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