Walter Benn Michaels Our America (Paperback) Post-Contemporary Interventions

Further Details\n\nTitle: Our America\nCondition: New\nSubtitle: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism\nAuthor: Walter Benn Michaels\nFormat: Paperback\nType: Paperback\nEAN: 9780822320647\nISBN: 9780822320647\nPublisher: Duke University Press\nGenre: Society & Culture\nTopic: Social Sciences\nRelease Date: 14/07/1997\nDescription: Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism.\n\u201CWe have a great desire to be supremely American,\u201D Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance to a cultural movement.