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dana d. nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. She is currently co-editing two projects,Materializing Democracy with Russ Castronovo, and a special issue ofAmerican Literature on "Violence, the Body and `The South'" with Houston Baker.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies -- Tocqueville's Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America -- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies -- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne's The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border -- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship -- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation -- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism -- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush -- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation -- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science -- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture -- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism -- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency -- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices -- Moralism as Antipolitics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index