‘It’s a Free Country’
Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20057027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geraldine Stoneham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 81-92 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Comparing Postcolonial Literatures (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230599550_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2488269323 |
| ISBN | 9780230599550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
At the American War Cemetery in Cambridge, a polished granite wall is incised with some of the names of the thousands of American men who died 'so that we might live in freedom'. As Benedict Anderson has suggested, it is a truism that the imagined community can be astonishingly, horribly realized in such places.4 The story of the monument is that of idea (nation/freedom) transformed into performance (war/death), performance into artefact (incised granite) and artefact into pedagogy (history). It is a narrative that is rehearsed, repeated and performed over again within the linear time of the Western nation state.KeywordsNational IdentityAmerican DreamVietnamese RefugeeFree CountryLiberal NotionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Archaeology · Art · Genealogy · Hybridity · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Vision · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philippine History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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