Foreword 13
A. In a Nutshell 13
1. The Niche 13
2. Readership and Relevance 13
3. One of Two Books 14
B. Statement of Purpose 14
1. The Ultimate Objective: CLIL and CLIL 14
2. What This Project Is – and Is Not 15
3. Research: Elusive Pieces to the Jigsaw Puzzle 16
C. The Gist 17
1. Legitimacy: Insiders' and Outsiders’ Perspectives 17
2. Americas and Americans: The Delusion of Memory and Monolithism 18
3. A Methodological Note:
Of Theme, Scope, Names, Sources, Referencing and Guidance 21
I. Counterpoints: Cultural Immersion
A Play of Words and Notes: Recording History 29
Act I. Born of the Ocean: Tragedies as Identity Markers 31
Act II. Whence and Whither? Visions of and for America 67
Act III. In Other Worlds: Near-Lives in the Promised Land 83
For each act
1. Prelude: Framework, Highlights and The Way Forward
2. Asides: Sources and Ear-Openers
3. A Chorus of Voices: On Paper and Onto the Stage
4. Entr’acte: Avenues of Thought
II. Viewpoints: Linguistic Production 115
Five CLIL Challenges 117
I. Locally AlterNative
Emigration and Exile 117
II. Originally AlterNative: The Anglo-Americans
Building a Society 120
III. Racially AlterNative: The African-Americans
Historic Guilt or Moral Relativism? 123
IV. Ethnically AlterNative: The French-Americans
Pioneers Reclaimed 127
V. Ethnically AlterNative: The Irish-Americans
Fictional Stereotypes or Archetypes? 130
III. Focal-Points: Educational Outreach
Essays on Distinctiveness: The Birth of Misgenenation 135
1. Anglo-American Prisms
Ideology Is Power: The Psyche of a Proto-Nation 137
2. African-American Experiences
Music Is Language: In the Face of Amazing Disgrace, Dignity 151
3. French-American Experiences
Language Is Presence: Speech over Silence 167
4. Irish-American Experiences
Education Is Key: Women as Guiding Lights 185
IV. Endpoints 201
A. Epilogue 203
1. Bookends 203
2. Pending Questions 205
3. A Budding Legacy 209
B. Resources
1. Journeys through Time: 1580-1920 210
2. A Selection of Multimedia References for (Self-)Teaching 226
3. Artists of Note: Concept Albums for Contemporary Ears 235
4. The Annotated Literary and Musical Corpus 237
Acknowledgements 249
Index 251
Credits 25