Levander / Pease Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8835-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levander, Caroline

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Natal Nationalism: The Place of the Child in American Cultural Studies 1

1. The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making in the Slavery Era 29

2. Southern Fictions and the “Race” of Nations Along the Mexican Border 52

3. Consenting Fictions, Fictions of Consent: The Child and the Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Novel 78

4. Transnational Twain 111

5. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Psychologies of Race 133

6. Raceless States: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba 157

Notes 179

Bibliography 211

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline F. Levander is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She is the author of Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture and a coeditor, with Carol J. Singley, of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader.