Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging

ISBN-13: 9781009249607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Pennsylvania) Hammer Dean (Franklin and Marshall College

Opis

Explores how Rome and the USA are communities comprised of Strangers who must continually wrestle with shared identities of belonging.

Recenzje

'Recommended.' M. A. Byron, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and The Outlaw Josey Wales; 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive Stranger and the construction of a genealogy; 3. The wild Stranger and the conquest of space; 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body; 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics.