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National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity."This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake.Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson

American literature --- Thematology --- Literary rhetorics --- Film --- United States --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans le cinéma --- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Typee --- Minderheden in de literatuur --- Minorities in films --- Minorities in literature --- Minorities in motion pictures --- Minorités dans la littérature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- National characteristics [American ] in motion pictures --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Volkskarakters [Amerikaanse ] in de film --- Motion pictures --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- National characteristics, American, in motion pictures --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- Lentricchia, Frank --- Criticism and interpretation --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. --- Minorities in motion pictures. --- Minorities in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- United States of America