Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature EPUB
by Stephen Knadler
Part of the Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature series
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Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship.
Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire where many African Americans lived, worked and sought refuge, Knadler argues that these writers developed a complicated and layered transnational and creolized political consciousness that challenged dominant ideas of the nation and citizenship.
Writing from multicultural contact zones, these writers forged a "new black politics"—one that anticipated the current debate about national identity and citizenship in a twenty-first century global society.
As Knadler argues, they defined, created, and deployed an alternative political language to re-imagine U.S. citizenship and its related ideas of national belonging, patriotism, natural rights, and democratic agency.
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- Publication Date:10/09/2009
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/09/2009
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- ISBN:9781135247188