Yankee yarns : storytelling and the invention of the national body in nineteenth-century American culture /

Stefanie Schäfer.
Bok · Engelsk · 2021

Omfang	324 Seiten
Opplysninger	Also issued in print: 2021.. - Stefanie Schäfer provides a study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together 'Yankee Doodle', 'Brother Jonathan', 'Uncle Sam', the 'Yankee Peddler' and the 'Down Easter', she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.. - Specialized.
Emner	American literature - History and criticism. Americans in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Popular culture - History - United States
Dewey	810.9003
ISBN	1-3995-0201-8. - 1-4744-7746-1