Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19948363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Knadler (0000-0002-1146-907X, corresponding author), Stephen P Knadler |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 235 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Remapping citizenship and the nation in African-American literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203868607 |
| OpenAlex | W3000269516 |
| ISBN | 9780203868607 |
| Open Library | OL37309145M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire where many African Americans lived, worked and sought refuge, Knadler argues that these writers developed a complicated and layered transnational and creolized political consciousness that challenged dominant ideas of the nation and citizenship. Writing from multicultural contact zones, these writers forged a "new black politics"—one that anticipated the current debate about national identity and citizenship in a twenty-first century global society. As Knadler argues, they defined, created, and deployed an alternative political language to re-imagine U.S. citizenship and its related ideas of national belonging, patriotism, natural rights, and democratic agency
Citizenship · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · African American authors · african american authors, history and criticism · African americans · African americans in literature · American · American literature · Black nationalism in literature · Blacks in literature · Citizenship in literature · General · History and criticism · Identite ethnique · Literary Criticism · Nationalisme noir dans la littérature · Noirs américains · Noirs américains dans la littérature · Politics and government · politics and government · Race identity
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |