Constituting Americans
Subtitle: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (New Americanists)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780822315506
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; World history; Sociology; American Literature (General); United States History (General); American English; USA; United States; Group identity; African American Studies; American Studies; Cultural Studies; History; Narration (Rhetoric); Political aspects; Political culture
First sentence: From the vantage point of his 1855 autobiography, My Bandage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass expressed resentment toward his former associates, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his colleagues, who had commissioned Douglass's first written account of his enslavement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845).