American Literature and American Identity - A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated national identity formation in influential works since the Civil War. In this book, Hogan develops his earlier cognitive and affective analyses of national identity, further exploring the ways in which such identity is integrated with cross-culturally recurring patterns in story structure. Hogan examines how authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-in the face of the nation's clear and often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality, exploring the complex and often ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Djuna Barnes, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood, N. Scott Momaday, Spike Lee, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tony Kushner, and Heidi Schreck.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Narrative Theory and Culture
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Patrick Colm Hogan
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-207895-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-03-207895-2
Barcode:	9781032078953

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