Fusions and Confusions
Fusions and Confusions
The Revolutionary generation constituted an American identity that was neither settled nor coherent, and tentatively took form on magazine pages and during public discussions. A bricolage of contentious political discourses, it was held together more by images of the enemies it struggled against than by any sense of rhetorical or ideological cohesion. To better understand the new American who emerged in the new urban magazines and the national identity he embodied, this chapter explores these political discourses as they struggled for ascendancy on magazine pages and within the minds of the new urban readers.
Keywords: American identity, national identity, political discourse, urban magazines, American Revolution
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