Bibliograph

Mourning the nation to come, Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures, Jillian J. Sayre

Type

Label

Mourning the nation to come, Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures, Jillian J. Sayre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mourning the nation to come

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1112785123

Responsibility statement

Jillian J. Sayre

Sub title

Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures

Summary

"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains

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