Unsettled States : : Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies / / ed. by Ivy Wilson, Dana Luciano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Blum, Hester,; Coviello, Peter,; Elmer, Jonathan,; Freeman, Elizabeth,; Hendler, Glenn,; Kazanjian, David,; Lazo, Rodrigo,; Luciano, Dana,; Nyong’o, Tavia,; Pratt, Lloyd,; Streeby, Shelley,; Tompkins, Kyla Wazana,; Wilson, Ivy G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Luciano, Dana,; Wilson, Ivy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano andIvy G. Wilson present some ofthe most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and culturalstudies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from seniorscholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challengesto the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organizedscholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges tobe aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks waysof inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Writtenby scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnicstudies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexualitystudies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritariancriticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to findingnew connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstratehow the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automaticrecourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach.Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “Americanliterature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of afield that is always on the move.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. On moving ground -- Part I. Archives unbound -- 1. Confederates in the Hispanic attic: the archive against itself -- 2. Historical totality and the African American archive -- 3. Race, reenactment, and the “natural-born citizen” -- 4. Doing justice to the archive: beyond literature -- Part II. States of exception -- 5. Unsettled life: early Liberia’s epistolary equivocations -- 6. The news at the ends of the earth: polar periodicals -- 7. Feeling like a state: writing the 1863 new york city draft riots -- 8. Impersonating the state of exception -- Part III. Speculative sexualities -- 9. Eat, sex, race -- 10. Connecticut Yankings: mark twain and the masturbating dude -- 11. What came before -- P.s.: A coda -- About the contributors -- Index