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Conformity and Resistance in America (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Conformity and Resistance in America (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Conformity and Resistance in America, a collection of thirty six
essays from various fields of the U.S. studies, addresses the
American culture as a space of fruitful tensions between the
generally acknowledged canons and the projects that have questioned
and subverted its very foundations and archives. The book seeks to
give justice to those areas of American culture that traditionally
used to be treated as marginal and negligible but which in fact
have added up to its uniqueness. This includes various areas of
American cultural and literary studies, gender and minority
studies, themes of diasporic communities, multi-ethnic and
multicultural society, problems of global economy and of competing
worldwide ideologies. The papers included in this book try to
answer pressing questions of the American identity in the post-9/11
world, and do so by pointing to the recent "humanities crisis" as
well as revealing moments of heterogeneity and discontinuity in the
making of any culture. Contrary to Samuel Huntington's dictum
telling us of the inevitable "clash of civilizations," the
following essays concentrate on what Edward W. Said called
"humanism's sphere" - the sphere of antagonizing discourses and
narratives which challenge rather than confirm the bases of their
legitimacy. Wavering between conformity and resistance, the essays
propose possible formulas for the new American identity as it
strives to define and project itself into the new century.
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