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Yankee
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- ISBN 9781474477444
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2021
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In this book, Stefanie Schäfer provides the first study of the Yankee’s many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee’s ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.
Stefanie Schäfer is a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has been professor of American Studies at Erlangen-Nürnberg and Augsburg, Germany. She specialises in Transnational American Studies and Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and Popular Culture.
