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Washington, D. C: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
According to a widely disseminated eighteenth- and nineteenth-century view, the English have no need of a formal, written constitution; they have instead the works of their greatest playwright. "8 English has emerged not only as the global language of economic, political, and social exchange, but also as the global medium of race and racial exchange.9 Greenblatt eschews the racial possibilities here, offers a derisive critique of his own origins, and derides "literary critics [who] seem to imagine that there is something inherently progressive in the group identities they study and celebrate, something that makes these cultural formations ethically superior to those of the nation-state.