Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature

Obourn, M.

Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-08-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230112476

DOI: 10.1057/9780230339378

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 229