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Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Caroline Levander

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Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Caroline Levander

Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts did more than include child subjects: they depended on them to represent, naturalize, and, at times, attempt to reconfigure the ground rules of U.S. national belonging. She demonstrates how, as the modern nation-state and the modern concept of the child (as someone fundamentally different from the adult) emerged in tandem from the late eighteenth century forward, the child and the nation-state became intertwined. The child came to represent nationalism, nation-building, and the intrinsic connection between nationalism and race that was instrumental in creating a culture of white supremacy in the United States. Reading texts by John Adams, Thomas Paine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta J. Evans, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, William James, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others, Levander traces the child as it figures in writing about several defining events for the United States. Among these are the Revolutionary War, the U.S.-Mexican War, the Civil War, and the U.S. expulsion of Spain from the Caribbean and Cuba. She charts how the child crystallized the concept of self—a self who could affiliate with the nation—in the early national period, and then follows the child through the rise of a school of American psychology and the period of imperialism. Demonstrating that textual representations of the child have been a potent force in shaping public opinion about race, slavery, exceptionalism, and imperialism, Cradle of Liberty shows how a powerful racial logic pervades structures of liberal democracy in the United States.

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Duke University Press

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0822388359

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9780822388357

Where is American Literature?

By: Caroline F. Levander

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Where is American Literature?

By: Caroline F. Levander

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations - linguistic, geographical, virtual, ideological - where American writing is produced and consumed Takes a highly original approach by viewing US literature spatially rather than chronologically or thematically, retuning our understanding of the subject The book offers a vital intervention in current debates over the impact of digital technologies on the production and reception of literature, ensuring that the field remains lively and dynamic Invites readers to reconsider the subject by questioning current perspectives on, and approaches to, US literature, offering a range of fresh perspectives on familiar texts and topics

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169

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118339649

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9781118339640

Hotel Life

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

By: Caroline Field Levander,Matthew Pratt Guterl

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Hotel Life

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

By: Caroline Field Levander,Matthew Pratt Guterl

What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. More than simply structures made of steel, concrete, and glass, hotels are social and political institutions that we invest with overlapping and contradictory meaning. These alluring places uniquely capture the realities of our world, where the lines between public and private, labor and leisure, fortune and failure, desire and despair are regularly blurred. Guiding readers through the story of hotels as places of troublesome possibility, as mazelike physical buildings, as inspirational touchstones for art and literature, and as unsettling, even disturbing, backdrops for the drama of everyday life, Levander and Guterl ensure that we will never think about this seemingly ordinary place in the same way again.

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UNC Press Books

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1469621134

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9781469621135

Voices of the Nation

Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

By: Caroline Field Levander

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Voices of the Nation

Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

By: Caroline Field Levander

Studies the relationship between women's speech and nineteenth-century American literary culture.

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210

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Cambridge University Press

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0521593743

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9780521593748

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

Performing Identity

By: Caroline Brown

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The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

Performing Identity

By: Caroline Brown

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Betye Saar, and Faith Ringgold. While the artists and authors rely on radically different media—photos, collage, video, and assembled objects, as opposed to words and rhythm—both sets of intellectual activists insist on the primacy of the black aesthetic. Both assert artistic agency and cultural continuity in the face of the oppression, social transformation, and cultural multiplicity of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book examines how African-American performative practices mediate the tension between the ostensibly de-racialized body politic and the hyper-racialized black, female body, reimagining the cultural and political ground that guides various articulations of American national belonging. Brown shows how and why black women writers and artists matter as agents of change, how and why the form and content of their works must be recognized and reconsidered in the increasingly frenzied arena of cultural production and political debate.

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341

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Routledge

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1136289194

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The Interethnic Imagination

Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

By: Caroline Rody

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The Interethnic Imagination

Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

By: Caroline Rody

Rody proposes a new paradigm for understanding the changing terrain of contemporary fiction. She claims that what we have long read as ethnic literature is in the process of becoming 'interethnic'. Examining an extensive range of Asian American fictions, she offers readings of three especially compelling examples.

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217

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Oxford University Press

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0195377362

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9780195377361

Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets

By: Nancy L. Caroline,American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons

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Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets

By: Nancy L. Caroline,American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons

This fully updated training system covers every competency statement of the National EMS Education Standards for Paramedics with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures student comprehension and encourages critical thinking.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284104885

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9781284104882

Where is American Literature?

By: Caroline F. Levander

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By: Caroline F. Levander

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Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

By: Caroline Levander

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Cradle of Liberty

Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

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Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.

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Duke University Press

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0822338726

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Hotel Life

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

By: Caroline Field Levander,Matthew Pratt Guterl

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Hotel Life

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

By: Caroline Field Levander,Matthew Pratt Guterl

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UNC Press Books

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1469621134

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Emerging Disciplines

Shaping New Fields of Scholarly Inquiry in and Beyond the Humanities

By: Melissa Bailar,Caroline Field Levander,Charles J. Henry

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Emerging Disciplines

Shaping New Fields of Scholarly Inquiry in and Beyond the Humanities

By: Melissa Bailar,Caroline Field Levander,Charles J. Henry

Proceedings of the September 18, 2009, symposium, "Emerging disciplines," organized by Caroline Levander and Charles Henry, held at Rice University, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Rice University Humanities Research Center.

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089263037X

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Voices of the Nation

Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

By: Caroline Field Levander

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Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

By: Caroline Field Levander

Studies the relationship between women's speech and nineteenth-century American literary culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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Book's by Caroline Levander

Cradle of Liberty

Cradle of Liberty

Where is American Literature?

Where is American Literature?

Hotel Life

Hotel Life

Voices of the Nation

Voices of the Nation

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

The Interethnic Imagination

The Interethnic Imagination

Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets

Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets

Where is American Literature?

Where is American Literature?

Cradle of Liberty

Cradle of Liberty

Hotel Life

Hotel Life

Emerging Disciplines

Emerging Disciplines

Voices of the Nation

Voices of the Nation

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