Shohat / Stam Flagging Patriotism

Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-86395-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 406 Seiten

The question "Why do they hate us?" is one of the most oft-cited puzzles of contemporary American affairs, yet it’s not clear to whom "they" or "us" refers, nor even what "hate" means. In this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate discourse" of right-wing politics, placing it in an international context. How, for example, do other nations love themselves, and how is that love connected to their attitudes toward America? Is love of country "monogamous" or can one love many countries? When can a country’s self-love be a symptom of self-hatred?

Drawing upon their extensive experience with South American, European, and Middle Eastern societies, the authors have written a long engagement with a problem that refuses to go away. Flagging Patriotism considers these complex features of "being patriotic," and in so doing insists that the idea of patriotism, instead of being rejected or embraced, be accorded the complex identity it possesses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shohat, Ella

Stam, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Love, Hate, and the Nation-State

I. On Narcissism and Exceptionalism

Patriotism: Myths that Bind and Blind

The Angels, and Devils, of History

U.S. Exceptionalism: The City on the Hill

French Exceptionalism: Grandeur and la Mission Civilisatrice

Exceptionalism "Light:" God is Brazilian

II. Variations on an Anti-American Theme

Sibling Rivalries: Anti-Americanism in France

L’Obsession: Anti-Americanism after 9/11

Imaginary Tribes: the "Anglo-Saxons"

Brazil and the Collosus to the North

The View from the South

From Francophilia to Francophobia

Anti-French Hysteria and the American Right

Anti-Semitism, Misogny, and the NeoCons

III. Discrepant Histories of Citizenship

New Debates about Old Revolutions

In the Name of God and the Republic

Foundational Contradictions

Citizenship in Brazil

Constitutions and their Discontents

The Crisis of American Freedom

Disjunctive Democracy

IV. Political Sense, Cultural Nonsense

Return to Exceptionalism: Socialism in America

The Protestant Ethic/Ethnic

Misreading American Religion

Anglo-Saxons: the Sequel

Les Mains Salles, or Dirty Hands

Submerged Narcissisms

Anti-Americanism: Dumb and Smart

Imrika Watani: An Arab-American Dirge for 9/11

V. Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of Democracy

Pricks and Wimps

The Fine Art of Lying

Fear, Catharsis and the Daily Show

Sodomy, Sadism, and the Christian Right

Patriotic Blackmail

The Pentagonization of Patriotism

The Demise of Reciprocity

The Illiberal Media

The Wages of Exceptionalism

VI. None Dare Call it Patriotism

The Contradictions of the Right

Wrestling with Patriotism

Why The Superpatriots are Not Patriots

Patriotic Fictions

Patriotism and the Pursuit of Happiness

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ella Shohat is Professor in the Departments of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She is co-author, with Robert Stam, of Unthinking Eurocentrism, also published by Routledge. Her other books include Talking Visions: Multiculturalism in a Transnational Age, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, and Taboo Memories, Dasporic Voices.
Robert Stam is University Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is co-author, with Ella Shohat, of Unthinking Eurocentrism, and, with Robert Burgoyne and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, both published by Routledge. His many other books include Film Theory: An Introduction, A Companion to Film Theory, Film and Theory: An Anthology, and Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture.