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’?

Monday, September 24, 2007

1. Choose ONE section from the text (The Way to Rainy Mountain) - there are 24 sections total.

2. Then, read, carefully the three distinct subparts (the myth/legend, the secular history, the personal memory).

3. Write a fourth part to the section - not more than a paragraph, and then explain (briefly) how you view (narration-wise) your choice/product.

4. Post the paragraph and the explanation here, on the blog. Then write it out as well in the JOURNAL noetbook.

5. Read other people's responses. Comment on them.

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posted by belag at Monday, September 24, 2007 | 19 comments