The Claims of Experience Autobiography and American Democracy【電子書籍】[ Nolan Bennett ]

＜p＞Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? ＜em＞The Claims of Experience＜/em＞ provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, Nolan Bennett examines the democratic challenges that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to bear their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum and abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism. These historical figures made what Bennett calls a "claim of experience." By proclaiming their life stories, these authors took back authority over their experiences from prevailing political powers, and called t．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る