from the 1990 English Institute
Conference
Comparative
American Identities
Routledge 1992
Editor:
Hortense
J. Spillers
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(out
of print)
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Contributors:
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Hortense J. Spillers
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Who Cuts the Border? Some readings on
America
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Sylvia Molloy
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The Unquiet Self: Spanish American
Autobiography and the Question of National
Identity
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Vèvè A. Clark
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Developing Diaspora Literary and Marasa
Consciousness
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Mae G. Henderson
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Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering
the Body as a Historical Text
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Kimberly W. Bentson
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Re-Weaving the Ulysses Scene:
Enchantment, Post-Oedipal Identity, and
the Buried Text of Blackness in Toni
Morrison's Song of Solomon
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Lauren Berlant
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National Brands/National Body:
Imitation of Life
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Michael Moon
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A Small Boy and Others: Sexual
Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth
Anger, and David Lynch
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Michael Warner
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Walden's Erotic Economy
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Robert Schwartzwald
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Fear of Pederasty: Quèbec's
Inverted Fictions
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What constitutes the pervasive cultural
assumption known to us as America?
Since the American hemisphere encompasses a
variety of national identities, can it make sense
to speak of a unified American identity? Can a
place for marginalized identities be established
within the cultural mainstream?
Stretching from Argentina, across the Caribbean
to the United States and Canada, Comparative
American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of
New World cultural identities, questions, and
problems. From a formidable array of issues in
cultural criticism, these essays stage a dialogue
between issues of race, sex, and nationality as
aspects of the cultural entity Jose Martí
has termed our America.
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