Forgetful Nation On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States

Name: Forgetful Nation On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
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ISBN: 9780822336198

ISBN-10: 0822336197

ISBN-13: 9780822336198

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ali Behdad

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In "A Forgetful Nation," the renowned postcolonialism scholar Ali Behdad turns his attention to the United States. Offering a timely critique of immigration and nationalism, Behdad takes on an idea central to American national mythology: that the United States is "a nation of immigrants," welcoming and generous to foreigners. He argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility, and that this deep-seated ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of national identity. Building on the insights of Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, he develops a theory of the historical amnesia that enables the United States to…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 0.20" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Nation and Immigration



Imagining America: Forgetful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation



Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism



Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of Self-Renewal



Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imagining of a "White Nation"



Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens


Conclusion: Remembering 9/11


Notes


Bibliography


Index