Comparative American Identities
from the 1990 English Institute Conference
Comparative American Identities
Routledge 1992
(out of print)
Editor: Hortense J. Spillers
Contributors: |
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Hortense J. Spillers |
Who Cuts the Border? Some readings on America |
Sylvia Molloy |
The Unquiet Self: Spanish American Autobiography and the Question of National Identity |
Vèvè A. Clark |
Developing Diaspora Literary and Marasa Consciousness |
Mae G. Henderson |
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as a Historical Text |
Kimberly W. Bentson |
Re-Weaving the Ulysses Scene: Enchantment, Post-Oedipal Identity, and the Buried Text of Blackness in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon |
Lauren Berlant |
National Brands/National Body: Imitation of Life |
Michael Moon |
A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch |
Michael Warner |
Walden’s Erotic Economy |
Robert Schwartzwald |
Fear of Pederasty: Quèbec’s Inverted Fictions |
What constitutes the pervasive cultural assumption known to us as America?
Since the American hemisphere encompasses a variety of national identities, can it make sense to speak of a unified American identity? Can a place for marginalized identities be established within the cultural mainstream?
Stretching from Argentina, across the Caribbean to the United States and Canada, Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of New World cultural identities, questions, and problems. From a formidable array of issues in cultural criticism, these essays stage a dialogue between issues of race, sex, and nationality as aspects of the cultural entity Jose Martí has termed our America.