Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of ExceptionalismU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 352 หน้า 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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... social existence . Everything from the past is worth knowing ; nothing from the past ever disappears completely . But past truths and truisms are never adequate for facing the forebod- ing future . Noble's writings call our attention to ...
... social relations . This position depended on denying the modern nature of slavery - its role in creating surpluses vital to the industrialization of Europe and North America , its rebirth after the invention xiv Foreword.
... social practice revolved around ter- ritorial expansion and the search for boundless markets . By the 1940s , Noble argues , the nation could no longer contain the con- tradictions inherent in a bounded nation committed to boundless mar ...
... social structures that guarantee that their actions and ideas are not simply the strengths or failings of one individual . Death of a Nation is the culmination of a long and distinguished ca- reer , a senior scholar's effort to ...
... social values . In the army , a friend , Sam Notkin , intro- duced me to socialist theory . My deceased wife , Lois , helped me sustain hope during 1943 and 1944. A sophomore in college when I started Prince- ton University , she taught ...
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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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Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism David W. Noble ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2002 |