American Literary History Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2009 Re-thinking “American Studies after US …

Project MUSE - American Literary History - Re-thinking "American Studies after US Exceptionalism" Project MUSE Journals American Literary History Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2009 Re-thinking "American Studies after US Exceptionalism" American Literary History Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2009 E-ISSN: 1468-4365 Print ISSN: 0896-7148 Re-thinking "American Studies after US Exceptionalism" Donald Pease Over the last 15 years, I have devoted a substantial portion of my work to analyzing the discourse of American exceptionalism so as to advocate for a post-exceptionalist American studies.1 After analyzing what I called the Janus face of American Exceptionalism, I concluded that the relations between US citizens' belief in US exceptionalism and the state's production of exceptions to its core tenets might be best described in psychosocial terms as structures of disavowal. By the state's exceptions I referred to measures, like the "Indian Removal Act" and the "Fugitive Slave Law" in the nineteenth century and "Operation Wetback" and the Vietnam War in the twentieth, which violated the anti-imperialist norms that were embedded within the discourse of American exceptionalism. In enabling US citizens to disavow the state's exceptions that threatened their beliefs, the discourse of exceptionalism regulated US citizens' responses to historical events. The standpoint from which I had conducted this analysis correlated the US disavowal of its imperial history with ...
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