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- catalog abstract "Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos - something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties. Michaels's sustained rereading of texts of the period - the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar - exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between WWI and race, contradictory appeals to the family as model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.".
- catalog contributor b8260251.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1918-1945.".
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-182) and index.".
- catalog description "Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos - something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties.".
- catalog description "Michaels's sustained rereading of texts of the period - the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar - exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between WWI and race, contradictory appeals to the family as model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.".
- catalog extent "186 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Our America.".
- catalog identifier "0822317001 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Our America.".
- catalog isPartOf "Post-contemporary interventions".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Our America.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1918-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.8/00973 20".
- catalog subject "Cultural pluralism United States.".
- catalog subject "E169.1 .M6 1995".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Nativism.".
- catalog title "Our America : nativism, modernism, and pluralism / Walter Benn Michaels.".
- catalog type "text".