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Being American
The focus of this topic will be American values and American identity from the settlers and the Founding Fathers until today.
What is the American Dream? What does it mean to be American? How do we recognize American identity with its history, values, and the American Dream - and how do we identify this in the political discourse.
Core texts:
A Promise of Freedom: An introduction to US History and Civics for Immigrants. USCIS Gov. (Video 16 min)
Being American. Identity, politics and contemporary society, Mette Holm, Systime (2016) p. 8-14.
Worlds of English s. 103-116:
Edward N. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage, 1984
Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union, 2008
Barack Obama: The American Promise, 2008
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Nation’s Strength, 1847
Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing, 1867
J.D.Vance, ’Hillbilly Elegy’--excerpt
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men, 1937 (værklæsning)
+ filmatisering, 1992
Omfang: 130 ns
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