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Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

Luciano, Dana
Wilson, Ivy

Hardcover

Series: America and the Long 19th Century, Book 13

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1479857726
ISBN13: 9781479857722
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Aug 15 2014
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.

Written by scholars primarily working in the minor fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined minor location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an American literature in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.

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