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Título: Identity And The Failure Of America. From Thomas Jefferson To The War On Terror | ||
Autor: Michael, John | Precio: $360.00 | |
Editorial: University Of Minnesota Press | Año: 2008 | |
Tema: Nacionalismo | Edición: 1ª | |
Sinopsis | ISBN: 9780816651443 | |
Investigates the idealistic promise of American justice and equality
John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, Ralph Waldo Emerson's antislavery activism, and Frederick Douglass's long fight for racial equity. |