Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-when faced with the nation's often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan's analysis, this imagination is inseparable from the narrative structures favored by the human mind.
Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-when faced with the nation's often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan's analysis, this imagination is inseparable from the narrative structures favored by the human mind.
Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, where he is on the faculty of the English Department and the Program in Cognitive Science. He is the author of over 20 books, including Literature and Emotion (2018) and American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution through the Civil War (2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Celebratory Nationalism, Critical Nationalism, and Disillusion: America After the Civil War Chapter One. National Identity and National Emplotment Part One: Race (I): Native America Chapter Two: Love and Death: Adapting The Last of the Mohicans Chapter Three: Heroism, Sacrifice, and Ancestral Memory: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain Chapter Four: Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony Part Two: Race (II): African America Chapter Five: Heroic Narrative and Colonialism: Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones Chapter Six: Heroic Narrative and Black Masculinity: Leroi Jones's Dutchman and The Slave Chapter Seven: Against Despair: Spike Lee's Malcolm X Part Three: Sexual Orientation Chapter Eight: Sexual Preference and the Purpose of a Democratic Nation: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour Chapter Nine: The National Community and Its Alternatives: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Chapter Ten: Institutions and Communities: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Part Four: Sex and Gender Chapter Eleven: Sex Hierarchies and Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland Chapter Twelve: Sex Hierarchies and Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Chapter Thirteen: Sex Hierarchies and the Law Today: Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me Afterword: A Note on Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will
Introduction. Celebratory Nationalism, Critical Nationalism, and Disillusion: America After the Civil War Chapter One. National Identity and National Emplotment Part One: Race (I): Native America Chapter Two: Love and Death: Adapting The Last of the Mohicans Chapter Three: Heroism, Sacrifice, and Ancestral Memory: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain Chapter Four: Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony Part Two: Race (II): African America Chapter Five: Heroic Narrative and Colonialism: Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones Chapter Six: Heroic Narrative and Black Masculinity: Leroi Jones's Dutchman and The Slave Chapter Seven: Against Despair: Spike Lee's Malcolm X Part Three: Sexual Orientation Chapter Eight: Sexual Preference and the Purpose of a Democratic Nation: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour Chapter Nine: The National Community and Its Alternatives: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Chapter Ten: Institutions and Communities: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Part Four: Sex and Gender Chapter Eleven: Sex Hierarchies and Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland Chapter Twelve: Sex Hierarchies and Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Chapter Thirteen: Sex Hierarchies and the Law Today: Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me Afterword: A Note on Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will
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