American Literature and American Identity A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century Narrative Theory and Culture Series
Auteur : Hogan Patrick Colm
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.
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
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).
Date de parution : 05-2023
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 11-2021
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
cognitive studies; affective studies; national identity; American history; narratology; cognitive science; democracy; American identity; Eugene O’Neill; Margaret Atwood; Spike Lee; Leslie Marmon Silko; affective science; Nationalism; Colonialism; masculinity; Young Man; Black English; Black English Vernacular; Cognitive Cultural Study; Inter-racial Romance; Democratic Egalitarianism; Rainy Mountain; Interracial Romance; Violate; American National; Hellman’s Play; Baraka’s Play; Practical Identity; Social Hierarchization; Egalitarian Universalism; Hubristic Pride; Lee’s Film; Racial Shame; Sexual Minorities; Castle Rock; Handmaid’s Tale; Sock Monkey; Ni Stress; Anti-transgender Prejudice; Djuna Barnes's Nightwood