Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

by Knadler; Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415996310
• ISBN10: 0415996317
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. nationalism, democracy and citizenship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Black Politics and Diasporic Intimacy: Remapping the Nation and Citizenship	p. 1
Transnational Citizenship in the "Golden Age of Black Nationalism"
"To Breathe Central America": Hemispheric Interplays and Martin Delany's Imagining of Citizenship in the Colored Republic	p. 29
Fashioning Democracy in America: Eliza Potter, Elizabeth Keckley and Black Working-Class Women in the Consumer Republic	p. 58
Trans-American Seductions and Creolized Black Reconstruction: The Imagining of Democratic Agency in Post-Civil War African-American Fiction	p. 84
Reconstructing Black Citizenship at the Age of Empire
Accommodated Citizenship: Black Cowboys and the Borderland West	p. 117
Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom	p. 143
Policing the Isthmus: The Contested Transpacific Geography of a New World Negro	p. 162
Epilogue: The Signifyin(g) Monkey Round the World	p. 185
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 227
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