The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National DistinctivenessHarvard University Press, 15/02/2001 - 394 من الصفحات The turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans—a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. |
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... argued in Chapter 1 , is as much about " independence " as it is about " inextricable interfusion . " Given this dia- lectical tension in Jamesian pluralism , I consider James's " each - form " as sufficiently vague and " muddled " to ...
... argued that even if one were to contest creationism , what was certainly indisputable was “ the permanence of ex- isting physical types " ( 50 ) . In contrast to Darwin's configuration of vari- ety as always changing , Nott spoke of ...
... argue against passing for the " white Negro . " Happiness can be found through the ( surprisingly ) unpainful process of self - outing . The Mulatto as a Mediation of Black Variety Hazel Carby has argued that the mulatto is a ...
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William James and the Modern Federal Republic | 29 |
Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism | 67 |
The Uneven Development of American Regionalism | 115 |
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