Ella Shohat, Robert Stam

Flagging Patriotism

Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism

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Produktbeschreibung

The question "Why do they hate us?" is one of the most oft-cited puzzles of contemporary American affairs, yet it's not clear to whom "they" or "us" refers, nor even what "hate" means. In this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate discourse" of right-wing politics, placing it in an international context. How, for example, do other nations love themselves, and how is that love connected to their attitudes toward America? Is love of country "monogamous" or can one love many countries? When can a country's self-love be a symptom of self-hatred?
Drawing upon their extensive experience with South American, European, and Middle Eastern societies, the authors have written a long engagement with a problem that refuses to go away. Squarely placed in the fields of postcolonial studies and American studies, Flagging Patriotism considers these complex features of "being patriotic," and in so doing insists that the idea of patriotism, instead of being rejected or embraced, be accorded the complex identity it possesses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415979221
• ISBN-10: 0415979226
• Artikelnr.: 21124186

Autorenporträt

Ella Shohat is Professor in the Departments of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She is co-author, with Robert Stam, ofUnthinking Eurocentrism, also published by Routledge. Her other books include Talking Visions: Multiculturalism ina Transnational Age, Israeli Cinema: East/West and thePolitics of Representation, and Taboo Memories, Dasporic Voices.Robert Stam is University Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is co-author, with Ella Shohat, of Unthinking Eurocentrism, and, with Robert Burgoyne and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, both published by Routledge. His many other books include Film Theory: AnIntroduction, A Companion to Film Theory, Film andTheory: An Anthology, and Tropical Multiculturalism: AComparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Love, Hate, and the Nation-State I. On Narcissism and
Exceptionalism Patriotism: Myths that Bind and Blind The Angels, and
Devils, of History U.S. Exceptionalism: The City on the Hill French
Exceptionalism: Grandeur and la Mission Civilisatrice Exceptionalism Light:
God is Brazilian II. Variations on an Anti-American Theme Sibling
Rivalries: Anti-Americanism in France L'Obsession: Anti-Americanism after
9/11 Imaginary Tribes: the Anglo-Saxons Brazil and the Collosus to the
North The View from the South From Francophilia to Francophobia Anti-French
Hysteria and the American Right Anti-Semitism, Misogny, and the NeoCons
III. Discrepant Histories of Citizenship New Debates about Old Revolutions
In the Name of God and the Republic Foundational Contradictions Citizenship
in Brazil Constitutions and their Discontents The Crisis of American
Freedom Disjunctive Democracy IV. Political Sense, Cultural Nonsense Return
to Exceptionalism: Socialism in America The Protestant Ethic/Ethnic
Misreading American Religion Anglo-Saxons: the Sequel Les Mains Salles, or
Dirty Hands Submerged Narcissisms Anti-Americanism: Dumb and Smart Imrika
Watani: An Arab-American Dirge for 9/11 V. Contemporary Politics and the
Crisis of Democracy Pricks and Wimps The Fine Art of Lying Fear, Catharsis
and the Daily Show Sodomy, Sadism, and the Christian Right Patriotic
Blackmail The Pentagonization of Patriotism The Demise of Reciprocity The
Illiberal Media The Wages of Exceptionalism VI. None Dare Call it
Patriotism The Contradictions of the Right Wrestling with Patriotism Why
The Superpatriots are Not Patriots Patriotic Fictions Patriotism and the
Pursuit of Happiness Conclusion Notes Index