Unsettled States: Nineteenth-century American Literary Studies (america And The Long 19th Century)
by Dana Luciano /
2014 / English / PDF
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InUnsettled States
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.
, 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.
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
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.
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.