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Carrie Tirado Bramen American Niceness (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- American Niceness
- Format
- Hardback
- EAN
- 9780674976498
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Name
- American Niceness
- ISBN-10
- 0674976495
- ISBN
- 9780674976498
- Title
- American Niceness
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Release Date
- 14/08/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Item Length
- 156mm
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- A Cultural History
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674976495
ISBN-13
9780674976498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237513212
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Niceness : a Cultural History
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Friendship, United States / 19th Century, American / General, Interpersonal Relations, Security (National & International), United States / General
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Political Science, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2017-003004
Reviews
Any nation that lays claim to certain principles, just like any person who dares to do so, opens itself up to the charge of hypocrisy. Some of the best moments in Bramen's history ask what might happen were we to actually live up to our ideals., What [Bramen] has written is a fascinating account of how niceness has figured in 'a national fantasy of American exceptionalism,' that Americans are unique because they are nice and friendly., No discerning reader will fail to spot that this is a big book in every sense of the word, indeed a game-changer, in its contribution to the history and theory of American culture. In its trenchant but fair-minded exploration of 'how niceness has figured in a national fantasy of American exceptionalism,' this book pulls off the feat of taking seriously a long-scorned but crucial dimension of national self-conception. American Niceness will be a vade mecum for students of U.S. culture everywhere., American Niceness is the sort of big, provocative, and essential book that attracts intelligent readers, especially at a time when U.S. politics puts the question of American niceness squarely on the table. It insists brilliantly on seeing the debates and wishful thinking regarding the 'niceness' of subaltern Americans as fundamental to nation-making practices of representation. The sections on how the feminine and the diplomatic fused are fascinating, as are those on siblings and learning to love and hate at once. There is no work even remotely like this one., Using primary sources, this well-researched book demonstrates how national identity is formed, transformed over time, and functions personally and politically... An important resource for readers of history and literary criticism., Using primary sources, this well-researched book demonstrates how national identity is formed, transformed over time, and functions personally and politically...An important resource for readers of history and literary criticism., Under the cover of niceness, Americans have done many things that are not at all nice: Native American genocide and slavery at the start, setting the stage for more free-ranging racism, sexism and imperialism. Bramen teases out the constructions (and underlying contradictions) of how we imagine ourselves, and who we really are. She discusses how niceness, and, of course, the manipulation of this idea, was invoked to sustain American exceptionalism...She is right that American niceness, a coercive strategy, is often not genuine. Long-standing myths created to hide exploitation endure in the present, supplanting a frank reckoning of our national character.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
973
Synopsis
The clich of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype--the nice American--which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the nineteenth century. Niceness is often assumed to be a superficial concept unworthy of serious analysis. Yet the distinctiveness of Americans has been shaped by values of sociality and likability for which the adjective "nice" became a catchall. In America's fledgling democracy, niceness was understood to be the indispensable trait of a people who were refreshingly free of Old World snobbery. Bramen elucidates the role niceness plays in a particular fantasy of American exceptionalism, one based not on military and economic might but on friendliness and openness. Niceness defined the attitudes of a plucky (and white) settler nation, commonly expressed through an affect that Bramen calls "manifest cheerfulness." To reveal its contested inflections, Bramen shows how American niceness intersects with ideas of femininity, Native American hospitality, and black amiability. Who claimed niceness and why? Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans have largely considered themselves to be a fundamentally nice and decent people, from the supposedly amicable meeting of Puritans and Native Americans at Plymouth Rock to the early days of American imperialism when the mythology of Plymouth Rock became a portable emblem of goodwill for U.S. occupation forces in the Philippines., The cliché of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype--the nice American--which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the nineteenth century. Niceness is often assumed to be a superficial concept unworthy of serious analysis. Yet the distinctiveness of Americans has been shaped by values of sociality and likability for which the adjective "nice" became a catchall. In America's fledgling democracy, niceness was understood to be the indispensable trait of a people who were refreshingly free of Old World snobbery. Bramen elucidates the role niceness plays in a particular fantasy of American exceptionalism, one based not on military and economic might but on friendliness and openness. Niceness defined the attitudes of a plucky (and white) settler nation, commonly expressed through an affect that Bramen calls "manifest cheerfulness." To reveal its contested inflections, Bramen shows how American niceness intersects with ideas of femininity, Native American hospitality, and black amiability. Who claimed niceness and why? Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans have largely considered themselves to be a fundamentally nice and decent people, from the supposedly amicable meeting of Puritans and Native Americans at Plymouth Rock to the early days of American imperialism when the mythology of Plymouth Rock became a portable emblem of goodwill for U.S. occupation forces in the Philippines., The cliché of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype--the nice American--which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.
LC Classification Number
HM1161.B73 2017
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