Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism Paperback - 1997
by Walter Benn Michaels
First line
HASH(0x111507f0)
From the rear cover
Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos - something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties. Michaels's sustained rereading of texts of the period - the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar - exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between WWI and race, contradictory appeals to the family as model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.
Details
- Title Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
- Author Walter Benn Michaels
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
- Date 1997-07-14
- ISBN 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.17 x 0.67 in (23.55 x 15.67 x 1.70 cm)
- Reading level 1620
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95012117
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
More Copies for Sale
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Add Walter Benn Michaels
- Used
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Item Price
-
$2.45$3.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Walter Benn Michaels
- Used
- Condition
- UsedVeryGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Skokie, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
$3.81$3.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Walter Benn Michaels
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Medford, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.00$3.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Michaels, Walter Benn
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$8.97$11.03 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America : Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
by Walter Benn Michaels
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$8.70FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (Signed)
by Walter Benn Michaels; Stanley Fish [Series Editor]; Fredric Jameson [Series Editor];
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
$10.73$4.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
by Walter Benn Michaels
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$30.27$12.81 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
by Walter Benn Michaels
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$30.37$12.88 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
by Walter Benn Michaels
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$36.40$12.81 shipping to USA
Show Details
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Walter Benn Michaels
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780822320647 / 0822320649
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$44.27FREE shipping to USA