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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Lepore, Jill. "The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War," American Studies Program, Yale University, May 1995.
This dissertation investigates the relationship between cruelty and language in defining the peoples of colonial New England during King Philip’s War. Further, it explores how the story of that war has been resurrected by subsequent generations of Americans seeking to redefine themselves. Building upon the theoretical work of scholars from several disciplines, this dissertation attempts to understand the connection between the war excess of cruelty on the one hand and the excess of narration on the other. It argues, ultimately, that the two are causally linked: acts of war generate acts of narration and both types of acts are essentially joined in a common purpose—that of defining a community’s cultural, racial, and political identity.
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