Title: Dislocating race and nation
Description: American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period.
Subjects: Literature and history, National characteristics, American, in literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, American literature, Black nationalism in literature, Race relations in literature, Nationalism and literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, National characteristics, american, National characteristics in literature, Nationalism in literature
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century