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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997.
Full Description
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier.
In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: HISTORY,NARRATIVE, WEST
Book One
The Language of History
What Was the Frontier Thesis?
Histories and Hypotheses
Explaining History
Systems and Paradigms
Narrative Explanations
Book Two
From Spirit to System
An American Dante: Frederick Jackson Turner
Frontier Dialectics
The Folly of Comedy
Provincial Politics
John Dewey and the Frontier Tragedy
Pragmatism's Conception of Emplotment
Merle Curti's Corporate Frontier
Book Three
Time Immemorial 129
The Indian Trade in Universal History
William Christie MacLeod and the Tragic Savage
Ruth Benedict and the Cultural Turn
Ramon's Frontier Tale
Friedrich Nietzsche and the American Indians
The End of History: A World without Culture
The Science of Acculturation
Ethno-History
The Double Plot of Edward H. Spicer
The Trouble with Tragedy
Margins, Borders, Boundaries
The End of Ethnohistory
Book Four
Histories of Language
The Fourth Frontier of Henry Nash Smith
Culture versus Art: Leo Marx
Myth, Method, and Manliness
Queer Frontiers
Dialectica Fronterizos: Gloria Anzaldua
A Note on Form
Postwestern
The Predicament of Culture
The Problem of History
Afterword
Language Is Story
NOTES
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
INDEX
