Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
- ISBN-10
- 0822315475
- ISBN-13
- 9780822315476
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Priscilla Wald
Description
"Constituting Americans" rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to fixing the words precisely of what it means to be an American
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