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Discourse and Culture - The Creation of America, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
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Discourse and Culture - The Creation of America, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
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Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting
point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of
the shifting scale of linguistic and historic values must be the
central focus for a new interpretation of American culture and
ideology. Six major American historical figures are evaluated as
products of the conflict between subordinate and dominant
influences in American society: steelmaster Andrew Carnegie; labour
leader Terence V. Powderly; historian of the West Frederick J.
Turner; social reconstructionist Jane Addams; race leader Booker T.
Washington; and black nationalist W.E.B. du Bois. Discourse and
Culture re-assesses the relationship between ideology and cultural
formation by asking if cultural change can be explained as a
function of discourse. The book draws upon the ideas of Althusser,
Gramsci and Hayden to address this issue, which lies at the very
heart of contemporary debate on the character of cultural history.
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