Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

by Russ Castronovo

Book Overview

For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume's editors argue, is exactly where it belongs. Drawing on literary criticism, cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329387
• ISBN13: 9780822329381
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"