Patrick Colm Hogan

American Literature and American Identity (eBook, ePUB)

A Cognitive Cultural Study From the Revolution Through the Civil War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs, Douglass, Hawthorne, Poe, and Judith Sargeant Murray. Hogan focuses on the issue of how authors imagined American identity-specifically, as universal, democratic egalitarianism-in the face of the nation's clear and often brutal inequalities of race and sex. In the course of this study, Hogan advances our understanding of nationalism in general, American identity in particular, and the widely read literary works he examines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000062021
• Artikelnr.: 59151946

Autorenporträt

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA.

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