1st Edition

Discourse and Culture The Creation of America, 1870-1920

By Alun Munslow Copyright 2009
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Discourse and culture; Chapter 2 The culture of capital; Chapter 3 Class and republicanism; Chapter 4 History and myth; Chapter 5 Gender, social reform and cultural identity; Chapter 6 The rhetoric of racial accommodation; Chapter 7 The black intellectual; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

Biography

Alun Munslow