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Voicing America : Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States
Voicing America Language Literary Form and the Origins of the United States
Author: Christopher Looby
How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Ben...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226492827
ISBN-10: 0226492826
Publication Date: 4/1/1996
Pages: 295
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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