Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individuality Paradox - Traber [No

"How does the marginalized individual become the national type? Through a series of nuanced readings of key American texts, Daniel Traber expertly traces the ambiguous cultural politics where outlaws confirm mainstream culture, and otherness is re-appropriated and reconfigured as the heart of the national project. A deft and discerning application of recent cultural theory - itself implicated in the romanticization and neutralization of otherness - this book has telling consequences for American and literary studies, as well as for the fields of cultural studies and whiteness studies."--Nick Mansfield, Macquarie University; Author of Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway