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The Need for RevisionThe Story is the South

The Need for Revision: The Story is the South [America is a myth. It is not really a land of the free, as Ronald Takaki reminds us in his A Different Mirror (1993), but more a land stolen from the natives (chap. 4), built on the backs of slaves (chap. 5), and expanded west through what used to be Mexico on the wagon wheels of condescending, inarguable providential pretense (chap. 7). Now that the west is ours, we seem sometimes to be trying to extend our idea of America around the globe, to “make the world in America’s image as once, in another time, the Romans sought to remake their world” (Norton, 2004, p. 186).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Need for RevisionThe Story is the South

Part of the Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Book Series (volume 77)
Editors: Owen, David P.
Owen, David P.
The Need for Revision — Jan 1, 2011
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SensePublishers
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© SensePublishers 2011
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73 –87
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10.1007/978-94-6091-660-1_5
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Abstract

[America is a myth. It is not really a land of the free, as Ronald Takaki reminds us in his A Different Mirror (1993), but more a land stolen from the natives (chap. 4), built on the backs of slaves (chap. 5), and expanded west through what used to be Mexico on the wagon wheels of condescending, inarguable providential pretense (chap. 7). Now that the west is ours, we seem sometimes to be trying to extend our idea of America around the globe, to “make the world in America’s image as once, in another time, the Romans sought to remake their world” (Norton, 2004, p. 186).]

Published: Jan 1, 2011

Keywords: Grand Narrative; Great Tapestry; Wagon Wheel; Countless Time; Dinner Parti

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