American Literature and American Identity

American Literature and American Identity
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Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781000470949
ISBN-13 : 1000470946
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Book Synopsis American Literature and American Identity by : Patrick Colm Hogan

Download or read book American Literature and American Identity written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated national identity formation in influential works since the Civil War. In this book, Hogan develops his earlier cognitive and affective analyses of national identity, further exploring the ways in which such identity is integrated with cross-culturally recurring patterns in story structure. Hogan examines how authors imagined American identity—understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism—in the face of the nation’s clear and often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality, exploring the complex and often ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Eugene O’Neill, Lillian Hellman, Djuna Barnes, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood, N. Scott Momaday, Spike Lee, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tony Kushner, and Heidi Schreck.


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