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Aknowledgments xiii Chapter 1. NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS: Switching theQuestion 1 Chapter 2. THE FOREIGNER AS FOUNDER 15 Dorothy and the Wizard 15Rousseau's Lawgiver 18 Freud's Moses 25 Girard's Scapegoat 33 Democracyand Foreignness 38 Chapter 3. THE FOREIGNER AS IMMIGRANT 41 The Book ofRuth as a Foreign-Founder Text 41 Ruth 42 Immigration and Founding 45Ozick's Ruth: Convert or Migrant? 48 Kristeva's Ruth: The Ideal Immigrant 55Gender and the Foreign-Founder 58 Kristeva's Orpahs: Cosmopolitanismwithout Foreignness 62 Mourning, Membership, Agency, and Loss: Ruth'sLessons for Politics 67 Chapter 4. THE FOREIGNER AS CITIZEN 73 The Myth ofan Immigrant America 73 Class Mobility as American Citizenship 80 EthnicBases of Social Democracy: Michael Walzer's Immigrant America 82 ForeignBrides, Family Ties, and New World Masculinity 86 Dramatizing Consent: TheUniversal Charms of American Democracy 92 Taking Liberties: Intimations of aDemocratic Cosmopolitanism 98 Chapter 5. THE GENRES OF DEMOCRACY 107 DoesDemocracy Have a Genre? 108 Democracy's Romance: A Tale of Gothic Love 115Notes 123 Bibliography 173 Index 199