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’?

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Tennessee Williams' comment on success:

1. Summarize the core of his arguement.

2. Do you agree with his statement about 'the catastrophe of success'? How so?

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posted by belag at Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | 6 comments