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- "No shining city on a hill: American studies and the problem of place"
- George Lipsitz, about globalization and how cultures and identitys mix. Hybridity.
- "Myth and Historical Memory"
- Richard Slotkin, about myths and reinforcing of narratives through culture. Custers last stand.
- "Uncle Ollie's Spite Fence"
- Jack Conroy, poor stick together out of necessity
- "Madonnas of the Fields: photography, gender, and 1930's farm relief"
- Wendy Kozol, pretty self explanitory.
- "Ethics of living Jim Crow"
- Richard Wright
- "Joe Louis uncovers dynamite"
- Richard Wright
- "Mules and Men"
- Zora Neale Hurston, talks about folk culture
- "First Person America"
- Ann Banks, immagrant stories, excluded from middle landscape. Usable past.
- "The art of cultural politics:| from regionalism to abstract expressionism"
- Erika Doss, talks about Pollock and Benton. Postwar freedom. Hollywood is a jeremiad.
- "Two Soldiers"
- William Faulkner, bro goes to war, younger bro goes after him. American exceptionalism. Jeremiad?
- "the meaning of national culture"
- Daniel Farber, media controls people, TV, national culture...
- "Beatlemania, Girls just want to have fun"
- Barbara Ehrenreich,media, popularity, drives girls nuts over beatles.
- "Snow White and other poems from Transformations"
- Anne Sexton, jeremiad about society's gender roles
- "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
- Anne Moody, Anne is a political activist in civil rights movement, is threatened.
- "Born on the Fourth of July"
- Ron Kovic, criticises frontier narrative, dismembered in 'Nam
- "Khe Sanh" from Dispatches
- Michael Herr, talks about the waste of vietnam war, beer coolers
- "Somewhere outside Duc Pho"
- Daniel Cano
- "on hearing a chameleon outside the city"
- Nguyen Duy, 10 years after tet offensive, war still damaged him
- "the noodle cart"
- Wendy Wilder Larson, Wasteful american commercialism takes even necessities of Vietnamese. Other side told by Tran Thi Nga.
- "Him on the bicycle"
- Bruce Weigel,shows dehumanization of vietnamese, shows them as people too.
- "Woman hollering creek"
- Sandra Cisneros, american / mexican identities for women
- "the things they carried"
- Tim O'brien, criticism of American consumer culture
- "Black Noise"
- Tricia Rose
- Learning to see ourselves inside an ideology. "Where you are at"
- Ontology
- Body of concepts, beliefs, and values articulated by a social group that defines its interpretations of life, etc.
- Ideology
- personal decisions reinforce / challenge narrative
- personal is political
- conformity, "keeping up with the Jones'
- consensus culture
- Balance between decadent civilization and howling wilderness.
- Middle Landscape
- Americans create their identity through exploration / conquer of new frontier.
- Frontier Narrative
- Use of past experiences to construct our identity of the present / future.
- Usable past.