Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0700628185 ISBN 13: 9780700628186

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2019

Riassunto

The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisition—a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-American women to anti- and non-national expansionists.

The contributors—established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies—make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. In doing so, they seek to illuminate the complexities rather than simplify, to transgress borders rather than redraw them, and to amplify the under-told stories rather than repeat the old ones. Their work identifies and explores the obscure—or obscured—fictions of expansion, seeking a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of culture creation and recognizing those who resisted US territorial aggrandizement.

In sum, Inventing Destiny demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the multiple rationales, critiques, interventions, and contingencies of nineteenth-century US expansion.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0700628185
• ISBN 13: 9780700628186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 289
• Redattore: Bryan Jimmy L. Jr.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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