Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Materializing Democracy

Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

Edited by: Russ Castronovo , Dana D. Nelson and Donald E. Pease
With contributions by: Joan Dayan and Richard R. Flores

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383901

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About this book

Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term “democracy.”

Author / Editor information

Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, published by Duke University Press.

Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Materializing Democracy is an excellent and exciting collection of essays by a group of distinguished scholars who together address both the promises and limits of current and historical practices and theories of American democracy. This book will appeal to scholars and students across the disciplines who are interested in the intersection of culture, politics, national identity, and citizenship.”—Amy Kaplan, coeditor of Cultures of United States Imperialism

“The editors of Materializing Democracy have a vision—an activist vision—that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume.”—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America Donald E. Pease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies Joan Dayan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border Richard R. Flores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship Russ Castronovo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation Lauren Berlant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism Lisa Duggan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush Chris Castiglia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation Dana D. Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science Wai Chee Dimock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture Michael Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism Kevin Gaines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency Christopher Newfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Moralism as Antipolitics Wendy Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 440

eBook

Published: June 21, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383901