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Stranger America - A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (Hardcover)
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Stranger America - A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
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Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt
America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald
Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early
twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the
foreign or intrusive ""other"" persist today. In Stranger America,
Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in our narrative
media, locating in America's aesthetic production, finally locating
a potential narrative strategy for circumnavigating themsuch
anxieties. Toth's central focus is, simply, strangeness--or those
characters who adamantly resist being fixed in any given category
of identity. As with the theorists employed (Nancy, i ek, Derrida,
Freud, Hegel), the subjects and literature considered are as
encompassing as possible: from the work of Herman Melville, William
Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen to that of Philip
K. Dick, Woody Allen, Larry David, and Bob Dylan; from the rise of
nativism in the early twentieth century to object-oriented ontology
and the twenty-first-century zombie craze; from ragtime and the
introduction of sound in American cinema to the exhaustion of
postmodern metafiction. Toth argues that American literature,
music, film, and television can show us the path toward a new
ethic, one in which we organize identity around the stranger rather
than resorting to tactics of pure exclusion or inclusion.
Ultimately, he provides a new narrative approach to otherness
American democracy that seeks to realize a truly democratic form of
community.
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