The New American Exceptionalism Donald E. Pease Table of contents http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/P/pease_new.html PRESS: -Video (Nov. 2009): Don Pease on the recent rise of "birthers" and the tea-party movement. -USA TODAY -Radio Interview with Open Source's Christopher Lydon -The Korea Times -The Statesman OTHER: -Pease talks about of Minnesota Press blog. | |
Exposes the fantasies that shaped For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation’s exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. After the collapse of the In The New American Exceptionalism, pioneering scholar Donald E. Pease traces the evolution of these state fantasies and shows how they have shaped At the same time, Pease notes that state fantasies cannot altogether conceal the inconsistencies they mask, showing how such events as the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and the exposure of government incompetence after Hurricane Katrina opened fissures in the myth of exceptionalism, allowing Barack Obama to challenge the homeland security paradigm with an alternative state fantasy that privileges fairness, inclusion, and justice. "At last, a genealogy of the paranoid style of —Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research "Its scope, theoretical adventurousness and lucidity, radical commitment to ethical acts, and seriousness make The New American Exceptionalism an unusual and stunning work of American cultural and political theory. This is a major book by a major critic on the —José David SaldÃvar, "A passionately argued analysis of how successive governments have constructed specific images to forge the ideas of a unified national culture—despite the fact that American society has gradually fragmented over the last three decades." —Journal of American Culture "All in all, the book is a brilliant rhetorical performance." —Choice "This “exceptional” work of great scope and brilliant insight marries cultural history with political theory. It is relevant, thought provoking, and even ground-breaking." —Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, Travel-Watch Donald E. Pease is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at 256 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 Critical American Studies Series TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: The 1. Staging the New World Order: 2. 3. A National Rite of Passage: The Return of Alexis de Tocqueville 4. Patriot Acts: The Southernification of 5. From 6. Antigone’s Kin: From Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama Notes Index |
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Donald Pease, The New American Exceptionalism
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