Frontiers of historical imagination : narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
著者
書誌事項
Frontiers of historical imagination : narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
University of California Press, c1997
- pbk.
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全14件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Based on the author's thesis
First paperback printing 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-371) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New.It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier.
In Klein's words, 'we remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers'.
「Nielsen BookData」 より