Add to ORKGThe Evolution of the American Invasion Narrative traces the development of the tradition of American invasion narratives from their explosion in popularity at the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning as verisimilitudinous puritanical jeremiads, American invasion narratives evolve through time to reflect America's historical and cultural context, expanding into science fiction metaphors to represent ideas and anxieties as constantly re-imagined invaders from outside the nation. Inspired by fear of invasion rather than actual invasion, the United States provides the perfect setting for these narratives. Having discounted the origin of the modem nation by European colonists as 'civilisation' rather than invasion, the Uni...
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The American frontier of the nineteenth century has long been considered as a space wherein tests of...
American Literature - originates in the descriptions of the first English travelers and colonizers o...
What has it meant to be an Americanist? What did it mean to be an Americanist through fascism, war, ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, various literary texts presented scenarios of "reverse im...
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves...
While American textbooks generally apply the term imperialism to the end of the nineteenth-century, ...
This thesis opens discussion on American alien invasion films of the 90s as a self-critique, a react...
This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a ...
The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The \u27American Dream\u27 has not on...
Throughout the nineteenth century, American authors produced literature that depicted the processes ...
The article raises the problem of American imperialism. The author proposes a new approach to the is...
Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of HistoryCharles W. SandersAmericans during the first half of the ni...
2015-07-31The increasing popularity and ubiquity of apocalyptic visions and disaster spectacles in t...
The territorial expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century caused major political, soc...
"Naturalizing Empire" examines processes of U.S. empire- building through a comparative analysis of ...
The American frontier of the nineteenth century has long been considered as a space wherein tests of...
American Literature - originates in the descriptions of the first English travelers and colonizers o...
What has it meant to be an Americanist? What did it mean to be an Americanist through fascism, war, ...