Quote Recognition Flashcards
But in the older imagining, where were defined by centres, borders were porous and indistinct, and sovereignties faded impeerceptibly into one another
Anderson, on the religious and dynatstic.
Language becomes mebership within a community, and then there is a competitive language of “our nation is best”
Anderson: change in idea of nation
It views time as something close to what Benjamin calls Messianic time, a simultaneity of past and future in an instantaneous present
Anderson. yeah you can figure this one out.
Anderson: Concepts and Definitions
Nationalism creates the nation
Communities distingusihed by how they are imagined…but this does not mean that nationality doesn’t necessarily mean nothing.
Anderson: Cultural Roots
Print capitalism created possibility of imagining the nation.
Religious Vs. IC. Religious: defined by centers, hierarchical, views language as membership, and messianic time. IC: population is imagined, horizontal power, territorial, competitive language, and empty homogeneous time.
Nationalism represents fatality, continuity, eternity, and afterlife. (took place of religion).
My Kinsman Major Molineux
Tells the story of shift in political consciousness as violent. Problems of justifying inequality in the social order, so a brotherhood of equals. Cultures is the site of the negotiation of anxieties (woman seducing Robin). Also, the idea of racial exclusion is justified with the two faces, and the barbarity of it.
Two faces in My Kinsman
Black and red is racial exclusion or death/war
question of how we justify exclusions and hierarchies
man w/ two faces creates a representativeness when laughing. the dangerousness of freedom is shown through his two-facedness.
Derrida: Declarations of Independence
Signature creates the signer
texts produce what they proport to only describe… “are and ought to be”: declaration is both a performative and descriptive act
All signatures are countersignatures representing a difference.
Independence must be stated AND verified.
Ambivalence in representation.
e.e. cummings, “next to god of course america i”
National tropes spliced together to be divulgent of meaning
rhetoric having form but no content
nationalism looking to the past but only to deny nation’s character as different
Theme from English B
Langston Hughes,
critiques the idea of the nation as overcoming differences ( no need, they’re there)
maintains idea of nation as a horizontal community, and whiteness and blackness cannot exist without the other.
there’s a destruction of the colored/white dichotomy
Domestic Keyword
Rosemary George
Cult of Domesticity, separate spheres argument. spatil and political interdependence; sight of labor.
portrayed as transcending specifics. national universal.
defined by the other: public, foreign, savage, unconventional, unsafe.
it’s a regulative norm.
The Coquette (marriage and friendship)
Hannah Foster
marriage vs. friendship
marriage: tomb of friendship, limited sphere to help others, has domestic duties, sphere of dependence for happines scrutiny and obligation. Friendship: large sphere of benevolence and choice…but only virtuous within marriage. There is a disciplining of marriage (gendered def of freedom). hierarchical vs. horizontal.
The Coquette (women role in nation)
Cheerleaders vs. football players.
women role is to support and observe men with the right to inquire. but senate and field is public
they represent sentiment of nation, characterizing female citizenship.
Coquette (Sexual Double standard)
Actions acceptable for men, bad for women
Eliza’s inability to decide is death vs. sanford’s bad rep is just a bad rep.
Deliberation is bad, outweighing virtue. choice is “lost.
domesticity regulates religious morality..and illustrates double standard but cannot imagine an alternative.
Eliza Critiquing Society (Coquette
Morality is universal, and she provides alternative to separate spheres.
economized terms..friendship si a free alternative and free market.
boyer’s conception of friendship is opp of Eliza, eliza uses friendship for 0non-marriage. also, her coquetry becomes a justification of their seduction…and Boyer has the option to innocently enjoy company while Eliza does not.
Coquette (closure)
novel makes meaning otu of Eliza’s death
contradictory characters killed off: Eliza’s voice disappears. takes personal exp and makes it national in scope. NO message rgarding male morality, only women ordered to change.
Coquette (form)
Stages conversation, and invokes public participation/horizontal community. Meaning of novel is national in scope.
Cott: An archaeology of American MOnogamy
Monogamy is derived from religion and depicted as a choice
political metaphor: consent of the governed and contractual (related to abusive father and mother w/children).
In theory, wife would have some rights to divorce, but no she only has a choice in husband
marriage became a selfless state, and women as feelers of the nation.
My Contraband
Louisa May Alcott
humanizing/whiteizing of slave through domesticity.. Dane takes upon the role of the wife and mother in national community.
Slavery is emasculating, dane is to help slaves relcaim their gender. but there is still the idea of legitimate and illegitimate violence with family ties being the wrong of slavery.
Anderson: “memory and Forgetting”
Second generation nationalism is not a break from the past..it’s lineage. nationalism is awakening of something already inherent to the people.
All history is both memory and forgetting…choosing to remember certain events in line with conceptions of ourselves.
“Old Marster…took her”
My contraband
black people don’t count as people, and have no legitimate marriage.
“used to sing that way to me”
My contraband
contradiction to tyranny idea..destabilizes family and shows a corruption of white family
“no drop of black blood marred him in her sight…”
distinction of white/black blood..marriage being its legitimizer
HoSG (temporality)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ruptures in temporality are indicative of problems.
“wrongdoing of one generation lives into successor ones”…memory and forgetting
haunting has the past living unnaturally in the present. violates empty homogeneous time, but not quite messianic time. cannot be forgotten in the narrative of the history.
