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Article: Rebirths of a U.S. nation: race and gendering of the nation state.
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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FEMINISM IS NOTABLY ABSENT AS A SUBJECT OF "problems or solutions" that the U.S. South poses for "ongoing negotiations among postcolonial theory, African diasporic scholarship, inter-American studies, and postnational U.S. literary and cultural studies" in this symposium's call for papers. Clearly a gendered analysis is a strong part of this program. But the omission of feminism from the call might bear examination. Surely given the highly gendered nature of chattel slavery on U.S. Southern plantations and of nation-building, for both Confederacy and Union, such endeavors as a "new southern studies" (Houston Baker's call) and a rapidly emerging "New World Studies" (this ...