Fictive Citizens: Sexuality, Race and National Belonging 1776-1898. In this course we will query the links between literature and national citizenship as each transformed from the revolutionary period to the U.S.’s emergence as a global economic and military power in the late 1800’s. As we work through clusters focused on discourses of masculinity and paternity, femininity and motherhood, and the “queer” subjectivities produced out of conditions of captivity, we will consider how formations of race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the literature of this period to form and transform the parameters of citizenship and national belonging.