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... compelling counternarratives to constitutional patriotism, models of local attachment that De Forest recognizes as the political sensibility of “geographical morality.” Geographical morality implies allegiance to a prediscursive and so-called natural state whose limits are set by climate and human biology...

...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2007 Stephen Sensationalizing Patriotism: Knadler Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom ​In Life’s Demands; or, According to Law (1916), Afri- can American novelist, minister...

...Nicolas S. Witschi This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism . By Ryan Terre . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2011 . xv , 171 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $22.95 . Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper...

... the content of the older complaint in the tone and with the emphasis of the newer political fear. The novel thus contributed to those Republican warnings against self-abasement that gave the new party a fresh power derived from a traditional feature of patriotic rhetoric. Paul's seduction into and recovery...

... dominant readings of America Is in the Heart as setting the limits by which Filipinos are excluded by discourses of race in the U.S. national polity, this essay argues that Luce's definition of U.S. expertise as patriotic work resonated deeply with Filipino American writers, including Bulosan...

... with the historical circumstances and the generic conventions of the early national novel. Furthermore, when impaired figures entered American fiction in the late 1810s and 1820s, their bodies were not stigmatized, but rather crippled bodies most often signified a legible and laudable history of patriotism. I...

... Habits of the Siamese Twins” and Thomas Nast's political cartoon “The American Twins” use Chang and Eng Bunker as metaphors to discuss national unity at key moments when that unity appears to be most pressing. While these patriotic visions of unity appear to be inclusive, they are ultimately race...

... in Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba (1895), a novel that presents Reade Jr. aiding the Cuban revolution against Spain and interacting with fictionalized portrayals of Cuban patriots Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo. By applying the Reade novels' narrative formula to create an overtly political text valorizing...

... space and time, and possesses unimpeachable integrity—and so embodies the very attributes that gave the greenback its value as a fiat currency. The Secret Service narrative transforms detective fiction into a celebration of a nationalism that links patriotic sentiments to recently created symbols...

... American Revolution Indigenous peoples Assassin’s Creed Prior to Ubisoft’s 2012 release of Assassin’s Creed III ( AC3 ), the first AAA video game set during the American Revolution, 1 many were concerned it would be a Hollywood-style celebration of American patriotism. During the six-month...

... stereotypes: against the backdrop of “the stereotype of Loyalist gentility” (105), Loyalists routinely critiqued the Patriots’ “provincial illiteracy” (45). Those critiques frequently zeroed in on examples of satire and of burlesque, ridiculing writings that displayed the Patriots’ bombast or, as Gould...

... Loyalist sympathies began circulating, he was pursued by mobs of “ patriots [that] began to rise” (15). With each new crisis—the destruction of tea in Boston Harbor (December 1773), the convening of the First Continental Congress (fall 1774), the battle between colonial farmers and British regulars...

...- sides, cartoons, story papers, comic valentines, and illustrated patriotic envel- opes, some depicting the ‘‘contrabands’’ who are the book’s recurring con- cern. Although Fahs thus looks most often to the vigor of what she calls...

... and sacrifice. While Ellen thinks her husband should put his duty to his family first, Kiyo feels compelled to risk his life fighting for his country. Explaining his patriotic obligation to his wife, he declares: “I seemed to be a living example of the evolution of an Oriental mind long swayed...

... homelands. Arab American writers, Fadda-Conrey argues, engage with the same tools often used to otherize them—that is, racial, religious, national, political, and gendered—and produce new narratives of US citizenship and belonging that transcend its homogenizing and hegemonic sense of imperative patriotism...

... of imperial science do not subsume agency or volition. Even “viruses and bacteria must be approached as world-making species rather than simply as dangerous pests demanding eradication,” writes Ahuja (11). Or, consider Nguyen’s centering on Viet Dinh, “the refugee patriot” (135) from Vietnam, whose Horatio...

...James Dawes © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Scarry Elaine . 1996 . “ The Difficulty of Imagining Other People .” In For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism , edited by Cohen Joshua . Boston : Beacon Press , 98 – 110 . James Dawes...

... fascinatingly details the notion of ‘‘con- quering’’ the frontier as it was articulated by nineteenth-century colonists and dispossessed Native Americans, progressive-era idealists, World War I– era patriots...

..., this is the state from which a politics of recognition and a battle for equality that revises symbols, images, and stories has been launched. And thus it is the state that catalyzes the “critical patriotism” that animates the contemporary battle for civic membership. Tillet’s book is necessarily focused...

.... In their multiple accounts of the Revolution, increasingly sub- ject to the losses of time and memory, historical novelists discovered a dialogue between historical events and present conflicts over what those events meant. Rather than writing simple patriotic narratives in which fictional characters...