National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives

Published by Duke University Press 1994

National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives

Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822377757

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National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity."
This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake.

Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson

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Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives Donald E. Pease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn Jonathan Arac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy Ross Posnock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age John T. Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy Alan Nadel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement Robert J. Corber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Queer Nationality Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative Patrick O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime Rob Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia Daniel T. O’Hara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad John Carlos Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene Kathryne V. Lindberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336

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Published: June 15, 1994
ISBN: 9780822377757