Rome and America : communities of strangers, spectacles of belonging /
Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in at...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- Foreword
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and the Outlaw Josey Wales
- Chapter 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive stranger and the construction of a genealogy
- Chapter 3. The wild stranger and the conquest of space
- Chapter 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body
- Chapter 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics
- Select bibliography
- Index.
