JOHN MICHAEL
Copyright Date: 2008
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 312
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts3vc
Book Description:
John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s antislavery activism, and Frederick Douglass’s long fight for racial equity.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-5669-1
Subjects: Sociology