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COM.ONIXSUITE.9782390616887 03 01 Presses universitaires de Louvain 01 SKU 110098PDF 02 2390616887 03 9782390616887 15 9782390616887 00 ED E107 01 01 American AlterNations in Mirror Images Reflecting (on) Black, Francophone, and Irish Narratives in North America 1920-2020 1 A01 01 Onixsuite Contributor ID 6686 Philippe J. Denis Denis, Philippe J. Philippe J. Denis Philippe J. Denis has been researching and teaching the English language and American culture at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) since 1993. In America, he lived out his passion as a CODOFIL teacher and soccer coach in New Orleans, Louisiana. On the road, he has so far experienced life in 16 states, some for months, some for hours. He has also been blessed to travel through stories by his most trusted circle of native friends. Straddling the ocean between UCLouvain and Clemson University, South Carolina, he designed and co-directed a French language immersion program for five years, teaching a comparative civilization course to combine the best of two worlds. His career-long teaching of an American Perspectives course to eager MA students has inspired and informed the writing of this book. 01 eng 00 294 03 10 LIT004020 10 POE000000 12 D 24 INTERNET Philosophie, lettres, linguistique et histoire 24 INTERNET anglais 24 INTERNET Langues, liguistique et littératures 29 2012 3146 Lettres et Sciences du langage 01 06 01 09 03 00 What if Irish-American poetess and professor Eavan Boland was right in pointing out that "'if the center dictates the margin – at the beginning – in the end, the margin always defines the center"? Her statement in a casual interview served as a mantra-like guideline to this sequel to AlterNative America in Counterpoint (1619-1919). This second volume is about testimonies and echoes, ghosts and hopes. It is about hearing silent and vocal resilience at a time when thousands of books are being banned and withdrawn from school libraries but it is also about marveling at stars in broad daylight. The three focal groups have had to overcome barriers: a distinct complexion, language, religion, worldview, or all at once. American AlterNations in Mirror Images treats readers to a pedagogical, reception-to-production crescendo along four main chapters: Intertextual Exposure, Focuses, Reflections, and Narratives to Be Written. Framing Mainstream America and a Nine-Age Timeline bookend the all-encompassing narration. Just as Joseph Campbell considered myth to be the penultimate truth, so too is art. This book lets a century of music, poetry, and spoken word seep through, in a participative class or in the cushioned comfort of an armchair. It prompts thinking independently and conversing in a fraught AI-dominated world that threatens memory. 02 00 This book lets a century of music, poetry, and spoken word seep through, in a participative class or in the cushioned comfort of an armchair. It prompts thinking independently and conversing in a fraught AI-dominated world that threatens memory. 03 00 What if Irish-American poetess and professor Eavan Boland was right in pointing out that "'if the center dictates the margin – at the beginning – in the end, the margin always defines the center"? Her statement in a casual interview served as a mantra-like guideline to this sequel to AlterNative America in Counterpoint (1619-1919). This second volume is about testimonies and echoes, ghosts and hopes. It is about hearing silent and vocal resilience at a time when thousands of books are being banned and withdrawn from school libraries but it is also about marveling at stars in broad daylight. The three focal groups have had to overcome barriers: a distinct complexion, language, religion, worldview, or all at once. American AlterNations in Mirror Images treats readers to a pedagogical, reception-to-production crescendo along four main chapters: Intertextual Exposure, Focuses, Reflections, and Narratives to Be Written. Framing Mainstream America and a Nine-Age Timeline bookend the all-encompassing narration. Just as Joseph Campbell considered myth to be the penultimate truth, so too is art. This book lets a century of music, poetry, and spoken word seep through, in a participative class or in the cushioned comfort of an armchair. It prompts thinking independently and conversing in a fraught AI-dominated world that threatens memory. 02 00 This book lets a century of music, poetry, and spoken word seep through, in a participative class or in the cushioned comfort of an armchair. It prompts thinking independently and conversing in a fraught AI-dominated world that threatens memory. 04 00 Overview A. The Project: Transcultural Literacy and Language 11 1. Literacy through Language 11 2. Knowledge through Emotion and Multicity 11 3. Progress through Enacting, Interplay and Action 11 B. The Object: Two Volumes 13 1. AlterNative America in Counterpoint (1619-1919): A Glimpse Back 13 2. American AlterNations in Mirror Images (1920-2020): New Angles 15 I. THE FRAMEWORK: MAINSTREAMING HISTORY 1. What Remained of America in 1920? 27 2. A Century of Booms and Busts 30 3. The Unpredictability of the New Century 34 II. INTERTEXTUAL EXPOSURE: VOICING EXPERIENCES A. Black in America 39 1. Insiders' Perspectives 39 2. A Symphony of Voices 46 a. The Bitter Fruit of the Past 46 b. Gazing through Glass Walls 48 c. Redlining 50 d. God’s and Nature’s Will 52 3. An Interpretation 54 B. Francophone in North America 75 1. Insiders’ Perspectives 75 2. A Symphony of Voices 82 a. Hushed Silence 82 b. Escapism and Nihilism 84 c. Terre de Coeur / The Land of Heart’s Desire (Yeats) 86 d. Inclusiveness by Necessity 88 3. An Interpretation 90 C. Irish-American in the United States 104 1. Insiders’ Perspectives 104 2. A Symphony of Voices 112 a. Memory Lapses 112 b. In Search of an I-Land 114 c. Remnants of Home 116 d. Beyond the Here and Now 118 3. An Interpretation 120 III. FOCUSES: SEEKING MEANING IN HERITAGE 1. Black Music Talks: From Silence to Music to Spoken Word 135 2. French Language Acts: Quiet Revolutions in North America 152 3. Irish Ancestry Binds: The Diaspora Back and Forth and Within 178 IV. REFLECTIONS: TYING THREADS TOGETHER 1. What is in a Date and a Name? 197 2. In a Constant State of Creating America 203 V. NARRATIVES: WRITTEN AND TO BE WRITTEN A. A Chronicle in Nine Ages 211 1. The Roaring Twenties, The Harlem Renaissance, Music, Film 211 2. The Wall Street Crash, The Great Depression, The New Deal 215 3. World War II, The Free Market Economy, The Cold War 217 4. The Golden Decades - The Civil Rights - The New Frontier 219 5. Oil Shocks, Reaganomics, The Lonely Superpower 226 6. The New Democrat, French Revival, English as a Lingua Franca 228 7. The Gulf Wars, Hurricane Katrina, The Subprime Crisis 231 8. Affordable Health Care Reform, Racial and Gender Rights 233 9. An Endangered Union 235 B. Stories to Pen in Six Genres 236 1. Erasure: Leaving Out Words to Highlight the Message 236 2. Ready-Mades: Building on Existing Words 238 3. Memes and Echoes: Comparing through Juxtaposing Texts 241 4. A Short-Story: Fictionalizing Historic Exiles Step by Step 244 5. Short-Essays: Researching Case Studies 248 6. Historical Letters and Lost Speeches: Writing as and like Somebody Else 250 C. References and Resources 251 1. Academic Literature 251 2. Historical Fiction Books and Poems 261 3. Period Movies and Documentaries 264 4. High-Form Concept Albums 266 5. Most Consulted Websites 268 6. The Audio-Visual Corpus 269 7. 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