Il corso affronta diversi aspetti di natura storica e sociale che caratterizzano la cultura degli Stati Uniti d'America.
Il programma prevede la discussione dei seguenti aspetti caratterizzanti la cultura americana attraverso lo studio dei seguenti testi storicoletterari:
American territory and US history
From the discovery to the frontier
The story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1527)
John Smith - A true relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that collony, which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the last returne from thence. (1608)
Frederick Jackson Turner - The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1897)
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904)
The American Identity:
John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
J. Hector de Crèvecoeur - “What is an American?” (1782)
James Monroe - “Seventh State of the Union Address” (1823)
The people and migration:
Israel Zangwill - The Melting-Pot (1908)
John Fante - Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), “Chapter 1”
Will Eisner - To the Heart of the Storm (1991)
Gloria Anzaldúa - Borderland/La Frontera, “The Homeland, Aztlán” (1987)
The people and minorities
The blacks
Frederick Douglass - “The Color-Line” (1881)
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of the Black Folk (1903)
Langston Hughes - “I, Too, Sing America” (1926) e “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926)
Martin Luther King, “I have A Dream” (1963)
Women
Lydia Maria Child, “Letter XXXIV” da Letters from New York (1843)
Seneca Falls Convention, “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
Kate Chopin - “The story of an Hour”
Toni Morrison – “Preface” a The Bluest Eye (1970)
Lgbtq
Estratti da The Stonewall Reader (2019)
The US Political system
Foreign Policy
Testi obbligatori:
- Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo 1776-2011. Bari: Laterza, 2014.
- Giovanni Borgognone, Storia degli Stati Uniti: La democrazia americana dalla fondazione all’era globale. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2022.
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