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THE UNITED STATES
Sandra Vega CarreroUNAC
“North America is a place where different identities mix and collide, and assemblage
a multiplicity, constantly producing and reproducing new selves and transforming
old ones” Bradbury, 1981 p. 20
Class Ethnicity Gender Race
Divisions in American life
Class Ethnicity Gender Race
Divisions in American life
It is difficult to talk about a single and closed notion of identity and values
Historical Political
Traditions
The music in the early America
Was created as people from
Other countries immigrated to America
1500s
England
Immigrants from England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution
Immigrants from England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution
MonarchismEstablish a state
governed by religious principles
Immigrants from England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution
King GOD
Immigrants from England
England
Colonists
Adventure
Restrictions of European Societies
“Freedom”
First writers of early America
Reflected their English
backgrounds
Subject was mostly religious
First writers of early America
Poems and preparatory
meditations before the Lord’s Supper
XVIII Century
Benjamin Franklin Tomas Jefferson
XVIII Century
Their perspectives changed
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
Religious
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
New Culture in American life
XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
New Culture in American life
Materialism
XIX Century
Washington Irving
XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short stories
XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short stories
Humorist
Folklorist
XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short stories
Humorist
Folklorist
Entertain
XIX Century
Washington Irving
XIX Century Transcendentalism
Immanuel Kant
XIX Century Transcendentalism
The mind isn’t a blanktablet or sheet of
blank paper.
KANT
XIX Century Transcendentalism
The mind isn’t a blanktablet or sheet of
blank paper.
KANT
XIX Century Transcendentalism
KANTThe mind contains
certain universally
acknowledged truths, and from
birth instinctively reads
this truths rather than writing them.
XIX Century Transcendentalism
Self - development
INDIVIDUAL, not Society
XIX Century Transcendentalism
Self - development
INDIVIDUAL, not Society
“Humans could experience divinity directly through
nature, a spiritual practice in which no mediation, such as through the churches, was
needed”
XIX Century Transcendentalism
Auto - didactism
Not Imitation or repetition