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European Journal of American Culture - Volume 22, Issue 1, 2003
Volume 22, Issue 1, 2003
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Edna Millay, Muriel Rukeyser, and Adrienne Rich: political poetry, social protest, and the place of the woman writer
More LessThis paper will analyze primarily the impact of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s political writing on Adrienne Rich, and address the relationship between Millay and Muriel Rukeyser. Through close examination of these women’s concept of the ‘political’ poet, as well as their attitudes toward socially conscious writing, I will try to show that Millay’s influence extends to areas that have repeatedly been bypassed (or approached only superfi- cially), and argue that the earlier poet played an instrumental role in the formation of the younger artist’s social consciousness. By evaluating the range and degree of Millay’s influence, I will also demonstrate that the earlier poet was among those figures who helped Adrienne Rich to both crystallize her views regarding ‘proper’ literary models and argue for a female tradition that would recognize the importance of versatility and experimentation practised by writers such as Millay.
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‘Goodbye Mr President’: Presidential Libraries and Public History in the USA
By G.H. BennettThe network of presidential libraries in the United States plays an important role in memorializing a key aspect of American history. They help to manufacture public memory about a particular president and some are more interested than others in presenting a fully rounded picture of their subject. Yet even in their myth-making much is revealed about particular presidents and the forces which shape public history in the United States. While considerable criticism surrounds some aspects of the work of the presidential libraries, particularly their cost and their grandiosity, their historical value remains significant.
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The good, the bad, and the mad: making up (abnormal) people in Indian country, 1900-30
More LessThis essay examines the concept of the modern self as applied to First Nation Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it examines the way in which social projects and psychological discourses engaged with the notion of the ‘Indian individual’ in the period 1900-30.
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The American happy family that never was: ambivalence in the Hollywood Family Melodrama
More LessThis essay examines the portrayal of unhappy American families in Hollywood Family Melodramas since World War II. In particular, it examines the ambivalence towards the family evident in American society and films, which arises from the repression of desire inherent within the modern monogamous family.
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Book Reviews
Authors: László Borhi, Mary Murphy, P. Degrelle, G.H. Bennett, G.H. Bennett and George KaplanTibor Frank, Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making: Studies on Hungarian Connections to Britain and America, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1999, 391 pp., ISBN 9630576597 (hardback) $40.00
Ben Giamo, Kerouac, The Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, 272 pp., ISBN 0809324318 (paperback) £15.95
Edward Ashbee, American Society Today, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002, 160 pp., ISBN 0719060214 (hardback) £45.00, 0719060222 (paperback) £13.99
Martin Folly, The United States and World War II, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, 187 pp., ISBN 07748615261 (paperback) £12.99
Christopher Hewitt, Understanding Terrorism in America: From The Klan to Al Qaeda, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 176 pp., ISBN 0415277663 (paperback) £14.99
Christopher Sandars, America’s Overseas Garrisons: The Leasehold Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 354 pp., ISBN 0198296878 (hardback) £45.00
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