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The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history.
The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other.
Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."
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Klein's big, sprawling, intimidating, and ultimately rewarding book ostensibly has a single story to tell--the historiography of the European conquest of the US--but is in fact more an attempt to intertwine, juxtapose, and analyze two very large and complex themes. The first is the central story of western American history--the frontier and the conquest of the continent. The second is the philosophy, or theory and methods, guiding the narrative forms used over the past century to tell the story of the American past. The book is presented in four parts. The first surveys the philosophical background of US history. The second examines Frederick Jackson Turner's archetypal frontier mythology and his followers and critics in the historical profession. The third looks at how anthropologists and ethnologists told this story over the past century, and the fourth examines the issue from the perspective of the discipline of American studies. The result is a mixture of intelligent, interdisciplinary, original, wide-ranging, erudite work and difficult, detailed, postmodern chic. This combination will not be to everyone's liking, but serious students of both western history and American historiography will want to work their way through it. Graduate, faculty. K. Blaser; Wayne State College
目录
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction: History, Narrative, West | p. 1 |
Book 1 The Language of History | p. 13 |
What Was the Frontier Thesis? | p. 13 |
Histories and Hypotheses | p. 22 |
Explaining History | p. 31 |
Systems and Paradigms | p. 37 |
Narrative Explanations | p. 47 |
Book 2 From Spirit to System | p. 58 |
An American Dante: Frederick Jackson Turner | p. 58 |
Frontier Dialectics | p. 78 |
The Folly of Comedy | p. 88 |
Provincial Politics | p. 92 |
John Dewey and the Frontier Tragedy | p. 99 |
Pragmatism's Conception of Emplotment | p. 108 |
Merle Curti's Corporate Frontier | p. 113 |
Book 3 Time Immemorial | p. 129 |
The Indian Trade in Universal History | p. 129 |
William Christie MacLeod and the Tragic Savage | p. 144 |
Ruth Benedict and the Cultural Turn | p. 148 |
Ramon's Frontier Tale | p. 153 |
Friedrich Nietzsche and the American Indians | p. 161 |
The End of History: A World without Culture | p. 170 |
The Science of Acculturation | p. 174 |
Ethno-History | p. 183 |
The Double Plot of Edward H. Spicer | p. 186 |
The Trouble with Tragedy | p. 195 |
Margins, Borders, Boundaries | p. 205 |
The End of Ethnohistory | p. 209 |
Book 4 Histories of Language | p. 213 |
The Fourth Frontier of Henry Nash Smith | p. 213 |
Culture versus Art: Leo Marx | p. 229 |
Myth, Method, and Manliness | p. 238 |
Queer Frontiers | p. 245 |
Dialectica Fronterizos: Gloria Anzaldua | p. 261 |
A Note on Form | p. 271 |
Postwestern | p. 273 |
The Predicament of Culture | p. 278 |
The Problem of History | p. 287 |
Afterword: Language Is Story | p. 297 |
Notes | p. 301 |
A Bibliographic Note | p. 367 |
Index | p. 373 |