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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... chaos and confusion to one of harmony and order . And the editors were willing to expand this marvelous exodus to the whole world because they saw World War I as a revolutionary moment that was purg- ing a corrupt and complex Old World ...
... chaos . They had made a distinction between virtuous private property , which was rooted in land , in the realm of immutable natural law , and the corrupt private property of capitalism , which freely floated across the expanse of ...
... chaos of capitalism . There was , for him , a sharp distinction between a system of virtuous pri- vate property associated with the democratic people and the corrupt private property of capitalists . Capitalist private property ...
... chaos of the international world had penetrated the boundaries of the nation . Perhaps because this capitalist vitality could not be interpreted as mean- ingful history as progress toward a harmonious space , it coincided with the first ...
... chaos of the international marketplace because he wanted to expand the power of English capitalism in the United States . Twain's Gilded Age could be interpreted as the defeat of the classless democracy of Jefferson and Jackson by ...
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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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