Teach me dreams : the search for self in the revolutionary era

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Teach me dreams : the search for self in the revolutionary era

Mechal Sobel

Princeton University Press, c2000

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and index

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: uk ISBN 9780691049496

内容説明

Narratives by ordinary Revolutionary Era Americans describe the crises that were both personal and political. For guidance, men and women, both black and white, widely turned to dreams, and these autobiographies reveal that issues of race and gender dominated their nighttime thoughts. Mechal Sobel argues dream analysis led to self-change and the adoption of radical new paths of action. Many emancipated themselves or others, joined or rejected the Revolution, or sought to alter the "sinful ways" of the world. This text charts how early Americans awoke to a new sense of self through dream interpretation. It promises to shed light not only on the minds of past people, but also on today's Americans.
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: us ISBN 9780691113333

内容説明

One day in 1698, Robert Pyle of Pennsylvania decided to buy a black slave. The next night he dreamed of a steep ladder to heaven that he felt he could not climb because he carried a black pot. In the dream, a man told him the ladder was the light of Jesus Christ and would bear any whose faith held strong; otherwise, the climber would fall. Pyle woke that morning positive that he should eschew slaves and slavery, having equated the pot with the slave he wished to buy. In fact, so acutely did this dream awaken him to his sins that he became a dynamic advocate of liberation. This dream literally changed his outlook and his life. Teach Me Dreams delves into the dream world of ordinary Americans and finds that as their self-perception increased, transforming them on a personal level, so did a revolutionary spirit that wrought momentous political changes. Mechal Sobel considers dreams recorded in the life narratives of 100 people, revealing the America of the Revolutionary Era to have been a truly dream-infused culture in which analysis of dreams was encouraged, and subsequent personal reevaluation was striking. Sobel uses a wealth of information--letters, diaries, and over 200 published autobiographies from a wide range of "ordinary" people; black, white, male, female. In these accounts, many previously neglected by historians, dreamers explain how their nighttime adventures opened their eyes to aspects of themselves, or unveiled new paths they should take both personally and politically. Such paths often led them to challenge those in power. Charting the widely dreamed of opposition between blacks and whites, men and women, Sobel offers astounding new insights into how early Americans understood their lives. Her analysis of the dreams and lives of ordinary Revolutionary-Era people demonstrates links between dreaming, self reevaluation, and participation in the radically changing politics of the time. This book will appeal to specialists in the fields of American and African-American history, and anyone interested in dreams and self-development.

目次

Illustrations xi Acknowledgment xv Introduction 3 1. "Teach me Dreams": Learning to Use Dreams to Refashion the~ Self 17 2. Whites' Black Alien Other 55 3. Blacks' White Enemy Other 106 4. "Making Men What They Should Be" 135 5. Women Seeking What They Would Be 164 Coda: "In Dreams Begins Responsibility" 206 Notes 243 Bibliography 313 Index 357

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