Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of ExceptionalismU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 352 trang In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who did not fit the elite vision: people of color, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. David W. Noble, a preeminent figure in American studies, inherited this ideology. However, like many who entered the field in the 1940s, he rejected the ideals of his intellectual predecessors and sought a new, multicultural, postnational scholarship. Throughout his career, Noble has examined this rupture in American intellectual life. In Death of a Nation, he presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. Exploring the roots of American exceptionalism, Noble demonstrates that it was a doomed ideology. Capitalists who believed in a bounded nationalism also depended on a boundless, international marketplace. This contradiction was inherently unstable, and the belief in a unified national landscape exploded in World War II. The rupture provided an opening for alternative narratives as class, ethnicity, race, and region were reclaimed as part of the nation's history. Noble traces the effects of this shift among scholars and artists, and shows how even today they struggle to imagine an alternative post-national narrative and seek the meaning of local and national cultures in an increasingly transnational world. While Noble illustrates the challenges thatthe paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. |
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... Americans viewed Native Americans and nature , capitalism and community , immigration and expansion . The ideological and political desire to see " America " as a timeless space filled with virtue conflicted with the realities of ...
... Native Americans not just as a conflict over land and natu- ral resources , but as a clash of worldviews and epistemologies . America could not be a timeless space unless its natural environment was un- spoiled ; it could not offer an ...
... American studies with American Indian studies , Afro - American studies , Chicano studies , and women's studies . I have cotaught with the chair of American studies , Jean O'Brien , who studies the history of Native Americans . This has ...
American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism David W. Noble. INTRODUCTION Space Travels In 2000 , a collection of ... Americans and Native Ameri- cans also required that white men accept patriarchal leadership of these inferior and ...
... American citi- zens , those who had meaningful agency , as white males . Their story of American exceptionalism would not examine the history of women or Native Americans or African Americans because such an analysis would reveal that ...
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The Birth and Death of American History | 11 |
Historians Leaving Home Killing Fathers | 48 |
The Crisis of American Literary Criticism from World War I to World War II | 89 |
Elegies for the National Landscape | 116 |
The New Literary Criticism The Death of the Nation Born in New England | 139 |
The Vanishing National Landscape Painting Architecture Music and Philosophy in the Early Twentieth Century | 161 |
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