American Niceness
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
| Author: | Carrie Tirado Bramen | ISBN: | 9780674982369 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | August 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carrie Tirado Bramen |
| ISBN: | 9780674982369 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | August 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.
The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.
