Title: Reconstituting Americans
Description: Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks.
Subjects: Multiculturalism in literature, History and criticism, Liberalism in literature, Cultural pluralism in literature, American literature, Citizenship in literature, Minority authors, Identity (Psychology) in literature, American literature, minority authors, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, American literature, history and criticism, 21st century, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literary studies: from c 1900, Literary theory, Literature
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century