Our Jerusalem
Americans in the Holy Land and Protestant Narratives of National Entitlement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2970865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milette Shamir (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-60 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W1990764090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
The essay tells the story of the "American Colony," a nonconformist commune of evangelical Protestants who settled in Jerusalem in 1881, from the perspective of American Studies. It argues that despite its many idiosyncratic features, this story can help elucidate a crucial aspect of Protestant America's narratives of national identity and of national entitlement in the postbellum era. It captures, that is, the regressive, feminized, eastward-towing theme that subtends these narratives' emphasis on progress, expansion, and a masculine thrust westward. This inherent duality in mainstream US nationalism is investigated in the main sections of the essay through a comparison between the writings of the American-born Colonists and Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf, a novel that tells the story of the Colony from the standpoint of Swedish nation formation
Art · Entitlement (fair division · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · National identity · Nationalism · Nonconformist · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Theme (computing · American Political and Social Dynamics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |