Representing and Imagining America

Philip John Davies

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1996

Representing and Imagining America

Philip John Davies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474466035

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In America, perhaps more than in any other western society, reality, legend and myth overlap. Americans have always been proprietorial about their country and its presentation. The international authors of this book open a range of windows on our study of the USA. Covering issues of culture and society, literature, politics and history, ethnicity, ideology and democracy, they offer a unique analysis of the way in which we perceive and interpret a country which has become the only truly global force in politics and culture.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Representing and Imagining America Philip John Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part I Imagining the Foundations
1. Imagining the Nation: The Frontier Thesis and the Creating of America Alun Munslow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Imagining the Frontier Stephen F. Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. The Magic Kingdom: Europe in the American Mind Michael Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4. America Imagines Itself in its National Holidays: Collective Memories of the Founding Fathers Bryan F. Le Beau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Part II Representing Regions and Ethnicity
5. Folklore and American Democratic Literature Thomas E. Barden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
6. Not Letting the Side Down: Negotiating Cultural Differences in White Readings of Affo-American Literature Deborah Cartmell and Kenneth Millard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
7. Scarlett, Rhett and the Wild Frontier Kathleen Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
8. Conceptual Metaphors for American Ethnic Formations Jason McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
9. Contradictory Southerner: Sam Ervin Confronts Multicultural America James Ralph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
10. The Foreign Policy Role of US Diasporas and its Domestic Consequences Yossi Shain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part III Imagining Modem America: Living on the Edge
11 They Don’t Have a Name for What He Is’: Serial Killer Culture I. Q. Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
12. Textualizing the Margins: Recuperating Alienation in American Crime Fiction Stephen Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
13 Urban Reality and the Metafictional Novel Aliki Varvogli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Part IV Representing America to the World
14 Comic Schemes and American Dreams: Preston Sturges and Hollywood Paul Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
15. Counterfeit Yanks: War, Austerity and Britain’s American Dream Steve Chibnall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
16. Barnett Newman, Abstract Expressionism and American Cultural Conventions Adrian Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
17. Representing the Company: The Rise of the Autonomous Corporation with the Loss of the Founding Father Jim Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Part V Representing Ideology
18 US Expansionism: From the Monroe Doctrine to the Open Door David Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
19. America and Ideology: Roosevelt to Wilson Ellen Maskill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
20. JFK, Vietnam and the Public Mind Geoff Stoakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
21. Defending the West: Ideology and US Foreign Policy during the Cold War David Sadler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Part VI Imagining Democracy
22 Undemocratic Vistas: Radical Form and Radical Critique in Dos Passos’s U.S.A. Michael Spindler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
23. Mr Innocence Goes to Washington: Hollywood and the Mythology of American Politics Ian Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
24. Electing America Philip John Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: American Studies

eBook

Published: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781474466035