Materializing democracy : toward a revitalized cultural politics / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, editors.

Other author Castronovo, Russ, 1965-
Other author Nelson, Dana D.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionvii, 427 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesNew Americanists
New Americanists. ^A346168
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [393]-416) and index.
LCCN 2001008514
ISBN0822329107 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822329387 (pbk. : alk. paper)