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Mourning the nation to come : Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures
- Title
- Mourning the nation to come : Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures / Jillian J. Sayre.
- Author
- Sayre, Jillian J.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 250 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Brazilian literature
- Latin American literature
- American literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Grief in literature
- 1800-1899
- Death in literature
- Brazilian literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Latin American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Indigenous peoples in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-6092
- ISBN
- 9780807171899
- 0807171891
- 9780807172841 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807172858 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019030783
- 40029794538
- OCLC
- 1112785123
- Author
- Sayre, Jillian J., author.
- Title
- Mourning the nation to come : Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures / Jillian J. Sayre.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sayre, Jillian J., Mourning the nation to come Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 9780807172841 (DLC) 2019030784
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029794538
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-6092