Comparative American identities : race, sex, and nationality in the modern text / [electronic resource] edited with an introduction by Hortense J. Spillers. - New York : Routledge, 1991. - vi, 198 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : who cuts the border? : some readings on "America" / Hortense J. Spillers -- The unquiet self : Spanish American autobiography and the question of national identity / Sylvia Molloy -- Developing diaspora literacy and marasa consciousness / Vèvè A. Clark -- Toni Morrison's Beloved : re-membering the body as historical text / Mae G. Henderson -- Re-weaving the "Ulysses scene" : enchantment, post-Oedipal identity, and the buried text of Blackness in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Kimberly W. Bentson -- National brands/national body : Imitation of life / Lauren Berlant -- A small boy and others : sexual disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch / Michael Moon. Walden's erotic economy / Michael Warner -- Fear of federasty : Québec's inverted fictions / Robert Schwartzwald.



0415903505 (pbk.) 9780415903509 (pbk.) 0415903491 (hard) 9780415903493 (hard)

90019918

GB91-990


Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature.
Nationale identiteit.
Rassen (mens)
Sekseverschillen.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.


America--Literatures--History and criticism.
United States--Civilization.
Amérique--Littératures--Histoire et critique.

United States Cultural processes English literature United States

PN843 / .C66 1991 E169.12

813.009/355