Discovering Difference: Contemporary Essays in American Culture

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Christoph K. Lohmann
Indiana University Press, 1993 - 203 Seiten
Features essays that employ Marx, Freud, Derrida, Lacan, feminist, and African American criticism to investigate topics ranging from cultural encounters at the time of the European conquest of the Americas to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings.

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American Literature Discovers Columbus
16
Charlotte Temples Remains
35
The Underheard Reader in the Writing of the Old Southwest
48
Poe Plagiarism and the Prescriptive Right of the Mob
65
Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class
88
A Cincinnati Story
105
The Politics of Belief
123
Sexual Difference
148
The Conflation of Racism
189
CONTRIBUTORS
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