Chapter Seven. Of Chadors and Capital

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Practicing American Studies
5. INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE 9
6. Chapter One. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies 11
7. Chapter Two. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class 34
8. Chapter Three. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies 64
9. Chapter Four. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook 82
10. Chapter Five. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park 99
11. Part Two. American Studies in a Racialized World
12. INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 117
13. Chapter Six. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads 119
14. Chapter Seven. Of Chadors and Capital 139
15. Chapter Eight. Fiction as Exploration: The Novels of Charles Chesnutt 153
16. Part Three. Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism
17. INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE 173
18. Chapter Nine. Reflecting on The Heath Anthology of American Literature 175
19. Chapter Ten. Melville Climbs the Canon 199
20. Chapter Eleven. And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present Miss Amy Lowell 221
21. Chapter Twelve. Cold War Culture and the Construction of Modernism 234
22. Notes 251
23. Index 281