The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850Princeton University Press, 9 de febr. 2009 - 176 pàgines American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? |
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... origin.9 Indeed, until the decade of the Revolution, each colony observed separate lines of economic and cultural ties to the metropolitan center. As a result, Michael Zuckerman notes, “Americans were still very far from being a people ...
... origin and believe someday they will return there. Members of one diasporic group may also maintain ties to other such groups, provided they share the same attachment to their nation of origin. When this double tie breaks down, we can ...
... origin. Were I actually committed to the classic definition of “diaspora,” I would have to agree that the term does not apply to British Americans. To understand how the cultural logic of diaspora might indeed hold true for the ...
... origin nor does it require members to remain intent on returning there. Quite the contrary, in order for this second model of diaspora to prove useful, the homeland has to disappear as a geopolitical site to which the diasporic group ...
... origin but toward an imagined cultural source that has in fact displaced that origin. This centripetal force is generated by the production of a generic homeland and results in a new sense of collectivity. In The Black Atlantic, Paul ...
Continguts
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Writing English in America | 19 |
The Sentimental Libertine | 43 |
The Heart of Masculinity | 73 |
The Gothic in Diaspora | 94 |
Afterword From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony | 118 |
Notes | 129 |
Index | 153 |
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