Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.
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American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period.
JSTOR
22573/ctt62fx7
Dislocating race & nation.
9780807859032
Dislocating race and nation
American literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Black nationalism in literature.
Literature and history-- United States-- History.
Literature and society-- History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nationalism and literature-- United States-- History.
Race relations in literature.
American literature.
Black nationalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
Literature and history.
Literature and society.
National characteristics, American, in literature.