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Author:

Sayre, Jillian J. author.

Title:

Mourning the nation to come : Creole nativism in nineteenth-century American Literatures / Jillian J. Sayre.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

x, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Nationalism in literature.
Death in literature.
Grief in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Brazilan literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Book Is a Grave -- Prolegomenon: Working through John Brown's Body -- Books Buried in the Earth -- Sovereign Tears, or, The Indian Is History -- The Shadow of the (m)Other -- Mother Tongues: Translating the Nation -- Coda: What Remains.

Summary:

"In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0807171891
9780807171899

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1112785123

LCCN:

2019030783

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)