American Exceptionalism

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American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. She explains how this sense of spiritual and political destiny has shaped American culture and how it has promoted exciting counter arguments from Native American and ...
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Overview

American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. She explains how this sense of spiritual and political destiny has shaped American culture and how it has promoted exciting counter arguments from Native American and Chicano perspectives and in the contemporary writings of authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison.

About the Author:
Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of English at South Bank University in London.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781853312090
  • Publisher: Keele University Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1998
  • Pages: 192

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Origins: Exceptionalism and American Cultural Identity 16
2 Dispossession: Native American Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism 41
3 Exceptionalism in the Nineteenth Century 70
4 Annexation: Chicano Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism 100
5 Westerns and Westward Expansion 122
6 Contemporary Interpretations of Exceptionalism 146
App El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan 168
Bibliography 172
Index 181
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