Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars
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In Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses, Betsy Erkkila argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and contested in its relations with others and the world. Whether blood is construed as setting up a boundary...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812238443
ISBN13:9780812238440
Release Date:December 2004
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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