Materializing Democracy

Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, published by Duke University Press.Dana D. Nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies / Joan Dayan Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-up Democracy on the Border / Richard R. Flores Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship / Russ Castronovo Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation / Lauren Berlant The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush / Chris Castiglia Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation / Dana D. Nelson Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science / Wai Chee Dimock A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture / Michael Moon From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism / Kevin Gaines Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency / Christopher Newfield Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Moralism as Antipolitics / Wendy Brown Works Cited Contributors Index

“Materializing Democracy is an excellent and exciting collection of essays by a group of distinguished scholars who together address both the promises and limits of current and historical practices and theories of American democracy. This book will appeal to scholars and students across the disciplines who are interested in the intersection of culture, politics, national identity, and citizenship.”-Amy Kaplan, coeditor of Cultures of United States Imperialism “The editors of Materializing Democracy have a vision-an activist vision-that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume.”-Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form