Constituting Americans : cultural anxiety and narrative form

Abbreviations ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 11. Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass ,and the Politics of Self-Definition 142. "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism 1063. "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History 1724. A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity 237Coda: An American "We" 299Notes 305Selected Bibliography 353Index 375