Stefanie Schafer

Yankee Yarns (eBook, PDF)

Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Stefanie Schafer provides the first study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474477468
• Artikelnr.: 72419650

Autorenporträt

Stefanie Schäfer is a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has been professor of American Studies at Erlangen-Nürnberg and Augsburg, Germany. She specialises in Transnational American Studies and Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan, a Transatlantic Affair
2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign
3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace
4. New England's "Homespun Yankee" in the Cultural and Literary Imagination
5. Yankee Politics: A Coda
6. Bibliography
Appendices
Index.