Castronovo / Nelson / Pease Materializing Democracy

Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8390-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term “democracy.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castronovo, Russ

Nelson, Dana D.

Pease, Donald E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dayan, Joan

Flores, Richard R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson

Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease

Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies / Joan Dayan

Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-up Democracy on the Border / Richard R. Flores

Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship / Russ Castronovo

Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation / Lauren Berlant

The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan

The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush / Chris Castiglia

Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation / Dana D. Nelson

Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science / Wai Chee Dimock

A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture / Michael Moon

From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism / Kevin Gaines

Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency / Christopher Newfield

Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Moralism as Antipolitics / Wendy Brown

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, published by Duke University Press.Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, also published by Duke University Press.