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Mourning the nation to come / Jillian J. Sayre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807172858
  • 0807172855
  • 9780807172841
  • 0807172847
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mourning the nation to comeDDC classification:
  • 809.9/897 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.N19
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains.
Summary: "In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"-- Provided by publisher.
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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains.

"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"-- Provided by publisher.

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