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This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of discovery, the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.… (meer)
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It has always seemed to me a rare privilege, this, of being an American, a real American, one whose tradition it has taken scarcely sixty years to create. We need only to realise our parents, remember our grandparents and know ourselves and our history is complete.
The old people in a new world, the new people made out of the old, that is the story I mean to tell, for that is what really is and what I really know.
GERTRUDE STEIN, THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (1926)
Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past, -- as it is to some extent a fiction of the present, -- the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, "WALKING" (1862)
If you don't like it, go to Russia, retorted the others.
STUDS TERKEL, AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND (1980)
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This book offers an introduction to American studies by examining 'the myths that made America,' i.e., popular and powerful narratives of US-American national beginnings which have turned out to be anchors and key references in discourses of 'Americanness,' past and present.
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Closing this gap is the ideological function of myth and the ongoing cultural work it performs.
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of discovery, the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
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