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Unsettled states : nineteenth-century American literary studies

Luciano, Dana, editor, Wilson, Ivy G., editor

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\"In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the \"long\" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Written by scholars primarily working in the \"minor\" fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined \"minor\" location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an \"American literature\" in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Subject: American literature 19th century History and criticism. / LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
• ISBN: 9781479857722, 1479857726, 9781479889327, 1479889326

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS201.U57 2014	1	BOOK	GENERAL