What is America one encounters and studies in a postmodern age? Is it a discourse? A bounded collective identity or a set of manifold, changing, and contingent identities? A fiction? An idea? A history? A place? If place has its say, are we talking about a nation, or several nations within a nation? And who are ‘Americans’? What do they share in common, what is their ‘American-ness’?

Saturday, September 01, 2007

September marks the beginning of OUR AMERICAN jOURNEY.

To those of you that still have internet access and are reading this (keeping track), please do the following task:

1. Take a piece of paper, not the world's largest paper (any bit that is not miniscule would do).

2. See if you can find an empty envelope; if not when you are done with the paper, you are simply to fold it.

3. On the paper, write down the following fragmented sentences, and try to complete/finish them:

America is...

The definitive American product is ...

An American is...

The typical American story would...

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4 Comments:

Blogger \ said...

I'm in!

5:16 PM

 
Blogger mr_FiC said...

"mr_FiC has sent you a Nudge"

11:25 AM

 
Blogger belag said...

good. we have a lift off

11:47 AM

 
Blogger CyrilusLyncestinus said...

Got it!:)

6:52 PM

 

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