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Materializing Democracy
Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
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Edited by:
Russ Castronovo
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With contributions by:
Joan Dayan
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
About this book
Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term “democracy.”
Author / Editor information
Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, published by Duke University Press.
Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, also published by Duke University Press.
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“Materializing Democracy is an excellent and exciting collection of essays by a group of distinguished scholars who together address both the promises and limits of current and historical practices and theories of American democracy. This book will appeal to scholars and students across the disciplines who are interested in the intersection of culture, politics, national identity, and citizenship.”—Amy Kaplan, coeditor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
“The editors of Materializing Democracy have a vision—an activist vision—that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume.”—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies
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Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America
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Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies
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Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border
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Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship
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Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation
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The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
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The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush
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Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation
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Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science
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A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture
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From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism
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Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency
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Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices
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Moralism as Antipolitics
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Works Cited
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Contributors
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Index
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June 21, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822383901
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