“[A] provocative critical study. . . . Comprehensive and well documented. . . . Eloquent and refreshingly jargon free. Highly recommended.” — CHOICE
“Levine is at his best when recovering the forgotten history of African American intellectuals, such as Walker and Douglass, and showing how they responded to specific domestic events motivating their transnational imaginations.” — American Historical Review
“An important and provocative deconstruction of nineteenth-century American nationalism, race, and the literature where the two intersect.” — Literature & History
“A remarkable tome. [Levine] has broken new ground. . . . Stands as an exceptional study and an instructive contribution to the scholarly literature dealing with American literary history and cultural criticism. Levine helps us to think in new ways and in new categories. Intellectual and cultural historians will find this book an especially valuable addition to the scholarship in their fields. Literature professors across a wide spectrum of specialties will welcome this book as well.” — Louisiana History
“Readers of Dislocating Race and Nation will profit from these fresh (and, to my mind, more fair-minded) readings of familiar figures and texts. . . . Levine demonstrates with exemplary clarity, erudition, and even optimism that “alternative histories are always immanent in particular cultural moments” — Modern Philology
“Levine’s book puts on display his striking and arguably unequaled breadth of knowledge of interracial literary history.” — American Literature
“Brilliant and moving final chapter.” — American Literary History
“Dislocating Race and Nation is a brilliant book and one of the most important works of American literary history, cultural criticism, and the contested nature of nationalism to emerge in recent years. Far more than a set of criticisms about specific authors, it reorients the way in which we think about American literary history, American history, and the past more generally.” — John Stauffer, Harvard University
“In this rich and compelling book, Robert Levine forces us to recognize that the concepts of race and nation have always been fluid and unpredictable — convenient but insecure ways of describing political allegiances and literary formations that prove to be far more complex at every turn.” — Eric J. Sundquist, University of California at Los Angeles
