Patrick Colm Hogan

American Literature and American Identity (eBook, PDF)

A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000470925
• Artikelnr.: 62613352

Autorenporträt

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