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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"American national identity"”.
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LITERATURE AND THE DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY: 1763--1828
<p>From 1763 to 1828 Americans rebelled against England's imperial policies, fought that nation for seven years, gained independence, and established a nation. During that time, the influences of democracy, nationalism, and enlightenment profoundly affected the values, attitudes, morality, and …
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
… of Indian captivity had long interested Anglo-American readers. Throughout the early republic, the genre of women's Indian captivity narratives took on another significance. "Captivating a Nation" places the scholarship of Indian captivity in conversation with American nationalism and reveals …
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God's chosen people: Protestant narratives of Korean Americans and American national identity
… Protestant narratives of post-1965 Korean American Christians, with regard to the formation of what it means to be Korean Americans. The focus of this dissertation is to find out how Korean Americans have reinterpreted their ethnic backgrounds and immigrant experiences in America based on …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
Bayard Taylor was a nineteenth-century American writer, traveler, lecturer, and diplomat well-known in his lifetime. Although active in many areas, he acquired fame chiefly through his adventures as a globetrotting news correspondent to exotic non-western regions at a time in which the United …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
… a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American public. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
"Since the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition in the early republic, American writers have located American national identity within a dialectical spatial imaginary where ideologies of spatial transcendence compete with those of local authority and regional difference. …
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The Discursive Construction of National Security Threats from 2001-2018
… seeks to explain the discursive construction of national security threats facing the United States from 2001-2018. The driving argument is that the nation's perception of threats and conceptualization of itself are vulnerable to Presidential rhetoric. Presidents convey threats through rhetorical …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
… courtships and marriages between British and American characters in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American short stories and novels. I argue that these transatlantic love stories respond to shifting Anglo-American cultural, political, and economic exchanges during the period. …
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Socially Racialized and Statistically Invisible: U.S. Census Recognition of The Middle Eastern and North African Diaspora
… contributing to their social erasure from the national identity. Through a comprehensive analysis of racialization and Orientalism scholarship, alongside an examination of census enumeration history, this research explores the alienation of the MENA diaspora from the American national identity …
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These Bodies Were Born to Die': Separatism and Medicine in a Fundamentalist Mormon Community
… Saint religious movement and conceptions of American national identity. The Group exists in the margins of both of these communities, facing legal, ecclesiastical, and social discipline for their practice of polygamy and for diverging from legitimized religious forms. Consequently, the Group …
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
… the ethnic majority group. Drawing from social identity theory and uncertainty-identity theory, two studies were conducted to examine whether population shift can elicit anti-immigration sentiment via the elevated entitativity threat to American national identity in addition to the threat to …
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Robert Zemeckis, Hollywood & the American Dream, 1978-1994
… very centrally with US social values, recent American (i.e., baby boomer) history, and the concept of the American Dream. Significantly, this run coincided with the peak years of the culture wars, an era in which questions around American national identity and US history since the 1950s were …
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Deconstructing National Identity: Character, Place, and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
… achieves a deconstructive interrogation of American national identity by analysing its representation in contemporary independent cinema. Drawing upon the poststructuralist work of Jacques Derrida (and limited applications of his thought to film scholarship), this project theorises a …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… often relied on crude and simplistic notions of national identity and American exceptionalism. Drawing on a variety of the cultural, political and aesthetic discourses which have emerged in post-9/11 studies, this thesis argues that the trauma aesthetic (re)mediates the cultural narrative of 9/11 …
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"More desired than our owne salvation" : the roots of American Christian affinity for the State of Israel.
This dissertation seeks to show that popular American affinity for the State of Israel draws from the taproot of apocalyptic hope informing American identity and national vocation from the revolutionary era to the present. The English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American women who wrote and told stories about Native Americans. When not ignored altogether, these women--white and indigenous--are usually seen as reinforcing vanishing-race ideologies. I argue, however, that they gesture daringly toward the …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… material culture to create a distinguishable “American” national identity in the early republic. Although some historians have argued that this process of “Americanization” was completed during the American Revolution or in its immediate aftermath, Americans still grappled with competing …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… of translation for two related trends in American art and visual culture of the antebellum and Civil War eras: the transatlantic expansion of the nineteenth-century French art publishing industry, and the conceptual shift in the period's literature on reproductive prints from the notion of …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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