These interdisciplinary concerns provide, in turn, the framework for the analyses of works of American literature that mirror their times and mores. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the political promises behind the social policies and political events of the period. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism.Īmerican Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony.
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