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9780822315476

Constituting Americans

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822315476

  • ISBN10:

    0822315475

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-01-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"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

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(13)
Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition
14(92)
``As From a Faithful Mirror'': Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism
106(66)
``The Strange Meaning of Being Black'': The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History
172(65)
A ``Losing-Self Sense'': The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity
237(62)
Coda: An American ``We'' 299(6)
Notes 305(48)
Selected Bibliography 353(22)
Index 375

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