Donald E Pease
Biographic Data
| ID | 306954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald E Pease |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pease |
| SIGNATURE | PEASE D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6356-7368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 23 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Geisel, Theodor
The Transcendentalists and Their World
Journal Article The Transcendentalists and Their World Get access The Transcendentalists and Their World. By Robert A Gross. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. xxii, 836 pp. $40.00.) Donald E Pease Donald E Pease Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 137–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaad12…
Preemptive Impunity: The Constituent Power of Trump's Make America Great Again Movement
How and why have freedom and social hierarchies and exclusions become fused in Trump's America? What causative factors can explain the emergence within twenty-first century US political culture of a movement notorious for its attacks on basic norms of tolerance, civility, and human decency? In their efforts to respond to such questions, prominent historians, political commentators, and theorists have correlated Trump's rise to political power in …
The "Après-Coup": President Trump’s Transfer of Power
Trump claimed that at polling stations throughout the United States large-scale and possibly centrally organized electoral fraud had happened, was happening, and that, without an intervention, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., would illegally be declared president-elect of the United States. "If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us" (Trump, "Deflated"). In April, presidential cand…
Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, José David Saldívar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational" paradigm for American studies. Saldívar urges Americanists to adopt a world-system scale of analysis. "Americanity as a Concept," an essay by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano and Immanuel …
Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratization of power and the socialization of property. Calling U.S. nationalism the new "opium of the masses," he …
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary…
Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
The Uncanny Return of Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Toni Morrison’s Home
Toni Morrison’s 2012 novel Home is concerned primarily with the efforts undertaken by its protagonist, the black Korean War veteran Frank Money, to accommodate himself to civilian life. However, Home differs from other Korean War novels in that after Frank returns to the United States, he neither aligns his wartime experiences with the superpower rivalry nor conducts a critical meta-engagement with Cold War ideology. When Frank comes back to the …
Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts
American studies as transnational practice: Turning toward the transpacific
William Spanos’s Exile Legacies: A Ritornello
This article discusses the importance of Auseinandersetzung to William Spanos’s untimely exile legacies
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Restoring Tennessee Williams’s Production of the 1950s Primal Scene
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Restoring Tennessee Williams’s Production of the 1950s Primal Scene” explores the productive exchanges between the domains of drama and psychoanalysis by removing the “primal scene” from its embeddedness within psychoanalytic theory and resituating it within a contemporary drama, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which the playwright put the primal scene to the work of countering the dramaturgy of the Cold War …
Anglo-American Exceptionalisms
Anglo-American Exceptionalisms Donald E. Pease (bio) American Exceptionalism. General editors, Timothy Roberts and Lindsay Dicuirci. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. 1552 pages. $625.00 (cloth). Volume 1: American Exceptionalism: Land and Prosperity. Edited by Timothy Roberts. 388 pages. Volume 2: American Exceptionalism: The American Revolution. Edited by Timothy Roberts. 353 pages. Volume 3: American Exceptionalism: Millennial Aspirations an…
Obama’s Rifts
Obama constructs links among signs of history to produce what I would call a punctual presidency, a presidency that is punctual in two senses: Obama works at the level of historical puncta, and he’s just in time. He is a figure who knows how to work with an evental logic of history, and how to transpose the evental logics of history into a means whereby change within the territory of the United States can be linked with transnational democratic p…
The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity
The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity” situates Michel Foucault's method of genealogical analysis within the history of critique, examines the usage to which David Scott has put Foucault to reconfigure the problem-space of postcolonial studies, and explains how Scott's usage of genealogical critique functions as a form of governmentality
States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement
The essay “States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement” analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies
Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States by Ali Behdad
Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against an Archive of Forgetfulness
Research Article| February 01 2008 Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against an Archive of Forgetfulness Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against…
A New Americanist's supplemental notes to comparativist analyses of the New American Studies
These supplementary notes consider how this issue of Comparative American Studies offers mediations concerning the relationships between national and transnational Americanist practices of the past and into the future, as well as meditations on what affiliates New Americanist scholarship with previous work in the field. Individually and collectively the contributors to this issue, Donald E. Pease argues, demonstrate how the internationalism infor…
Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism
Research Article| May 01 2007 “Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 71–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; “Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism. boundary 2 1 May 200…
The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making in the Slavery Era
Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy . They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultur…
Cultures of United States imperialism
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Raising the DeadAnything dead coming back to life hurts
Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express
New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon
Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
The Global Homeland State: Bush's Biopolitical Settlement
Research Article| August 01 2003 The Global Homeland State: Bush's Biopolitical Settlement Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; The Global Homeland State: Bush's Biopolitical Settlement. boundary 2 1 August 200…
States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement
The essay “States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement” analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express
Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades-from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through 1973. He reveals how American film and literary, his…
National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives
The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity
The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity” situates Michel Foucault's method of genealogical analysis within the history of critique, examines the usage to which David Scott has put Foucault to reconfigure the problem-space of postcolonial studies, and explains how Scott's usage of genealogical critique functions as a form of governmentality
Preemptive Impunity: The Constituent Power of Trump's Make America Great Again Movement
How and why have freedom and social hierarchies and exclusions become fused in Trump's America? What causative factors can explain the emergence within twenty-first century US political culture of a movement notorious for its attacks on basic norms of tolerance, civility, and human decency? In their efforts to respond to such questions, prominent historians, political commentators, and theorists have correlated Trump's rise to political power in …
Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against an Archive of Forgetfulness
Research Article| February 01 2008 Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against an Archive of Forgetfulness Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; Immigrant Nation/Nativist State: Remembering Against…
Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism
Research Article| May 01 2007 “Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 71–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; “Experience,” Antislavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism. boundary 2 1 May 200…
Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: The Nonsymbolizable (Trans)Action
Research Article| May 01 2003 Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: The Nonsymbolizable (Trans)Action Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 65–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
The Politics of Postnational American Studies
The Politics of Postnational American Studies examines the debate over the reorientation of American Studies along postnationalist coordinates within the context of the responses to Janice Radway's 1998 presidential address to the American Studies Association. Postnational American Studies describes an interdisciplinary formation that would change the epistemological objects and introduce an alternative politics of power and knowledge for the fie…
Regulating Multi-Adhoccerists, Fish('s) Rules
Patriarchy, Lentricchia, and Male Feminization
Emerson, Nature, and the Sovereignty of Influence
ions. Unable to be represented in either discourse, it can only appear in the gaps between them, as what remains unthought and unspoken in each. And although it does not do so explicitly, the title of Nature reserves a place for just such unthinkable thinking-in the section marked Spirit. In keeping with the unthinkable thought value of Spirit, its positioning in the text is perhaps more informative than any of its statements, for Spirit appears …
The Uncanny Return of Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Toni Morrison’s Home
Toni Morrison’s 2012 novel Home is concerned primarily with the efforts undertaken by its protagonist, the black Korean War veteran Frank Money, to accommodate himself to civilian life. However, Home differs from other Korean War novels in that after Frank returns to the United States, he neither aligns his wartime experiences with the superpower rivalry nor conducts a critical meta-engagement with Cold War ideology. When Frank comes back to the …
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Restoring Tennessee Williams’s Production of the 1950s Primal Scene
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Restoring Tennessee Williams’s Production of the 1950s Primal Scene” explores the productive exchanges between the domains of drama and psychoanalysis by removing the “primal scene” from its embeddedness within psychoanalytic theory and resituating it within a contemporary drama, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which the playwright put the primal scene to the work of countering the dramaturgy of the Cold War …
After 9/11, or, Whither the New Americanists
Following the ruptural events that took place on 11 September 2001, the Bush administration invoked 9/11 as an historical turning point that brought about a change in the entire symbolic apparatus. It resulted in the inauguration of a sociopolitical compact that was crystallized in the phrase Homeland Security State. This compact required US citizens to embrace the instinct for hatred and a compulsion toward violence in exchange for the violation…
Hawthorne in the Custom-House: The Metapolitics, Postpolitics, and Politics of The Scarlet Letter
Research Article| February 01 2005 Hawthorne in the Custom-House: The Metapolitics, Postpolitics, and Politics of The Scarlet Letter Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; Hawthorne in the Custom-House: The Met…
Emerson, Nature, and the Sovereignty of Influence
ions. Unable to be represented in either discourse, it can only appear in the gaps between them, as what remains unthought and unspoken in each. And although it does not do so explicitly, the title of Nature reserves a place for just such unthinkable thinking-in the section marked Spirit. In keeping with the unthinkable thought value of Spirit, its positioning in the text is perhaps more informative than any of its statements, for Spirit appears …
Sublime Politics
The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83
Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context
Patriarchy, Lentricchia, and Male Feminization
New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon
Leslie Fiedler, the Rosenberg Trial, and the Formulation of an American Canon
The Cultural Office of Quentin Anderson
Research Article| July 01 1990 The Cultural Office of Quentin Anderson Donald E. Pease Donald E. Pease Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (3): 583–622. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-3-583 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pease; The Cultural Office of Quentin Anderson. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1990; 89 …
National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives
Cultures of United States imperialism
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America
Draped in the American flag : Cold War liberals and the resistance to theory -- Reconstructing homosexuality : Hitchcock and the homoerotics of spectatorial pleasure -- Resisting history : Rear window and the limits of postwar settlement -- The fantasy of the maternal voice : The Man who knew too much and the erotization of motherhood -- "There are many such stories" : Vertigo and the repression of historical knowledge -- Hitchcock through the lo…
A Conversation with Oe Kenzaburo
Oe: Rob Wilson, you're an inveterate Japan and Korea watcher teaching English literature at the University of Hawaii. Your book, American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, was published fairly recently by the University of Wisconsin Press. A couple of years ago, during a talk you gave at a conference at the University of California, Irvine, I heard you read passages from your book while it was still in manuscript. I was quite impressed by…
National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives
In my introduction to the first volume on New Americanists,' I constructed an account of the phenomenon by way of an argument with Frederick Crews, who, in a critical review of New Americanists, identified himself as an established representative of the field of American Studies and denied New Americanists official recognition. I understood the precondition for a successful argument with Crews to be the conceptualization of an alternative discipl…
National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives
Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon
Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition
A “Losing-Self Sense”: The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity
“As From a Faithful Mirror”: Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism
“The Strange Meaning of Being Black”: The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History
Index
Selected Bibliography
Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Cultures of United States Imperialism
Cultures of United States Imperialism
In Praise of the Consciousness Industry
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