American Fantastic : Myths of Violence and Redemption

University of Wisconsin Press

American FantasticMyths of Violence and Redemption\nAuthor(s): Derek J. Thiess\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press, United States\nImprint: University of Wisconsin Press\nISBN-13: 9780299355104, 978-0299355104\nSynopsis\nAmerican Fantastic challenges readers to recognize an organizing myth in Americas perception of its imperialist past, the myth of redemptive violence. Derek J. Thiess persuasively argues that this myth serves to obscure the deep thread of Christian supremacy that underwrites Americas colonial and imperial impulses, from the early colonial period to westward expansion to the contemporary global order. This American imaginary, which enmeshes religion with violence, is constructed in multiple contentious and productive contact zones: between genres, between cultures, and between past and present.\n\n Thiesss interdisciplinary study examines Americas past and present imperial projects, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Eastern Seaboard, as they pro.