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- Title: Cultural Pluralism and the Issue of American Identity in Randolph Bourne's "Trans-National America" (Essay)
- Author : Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 240 KB
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At the beginning of the 20-th century, men and women in America found themselves on the brink of an unprecedented change. Eager, and yet fearful of stepping on a new cultural threshold, they were both enthused and disillusioned with the advent of a new epoch. Authenticity and uniqueness of life came in the limelight of the private sphere as well as of the public one, with an keener taste for secularism, technological improvement, social action and artistic experimentation, last but not least, with a greater interest for civic and political involvement. The already developing urban culture prompted Americans to find new forms of social and political representation for the individuals as well as for communities, an eventually did not delay on taking its toll on the heritage of traditional America. Expansion of knowledge and a social transformation blended into a heroic effort to surpass the heritage of tradition. As novelty and its almost religiously acclaimed reign was embraced by those who sought for the diminishing, or even the doing away of social barriers and cultural separations, modernist artists and writers attempted in America, as in Europe, to redefine the goals of aesthetic experience, cultural and social innovation and to increase social awareness, ultimately evincing in relevant outlooks about immigrants' culture. A desire to recapture the sense of the 'lost' life was entertained not only by those who militated for a nativist America imagining a possible 'return' to the primeval times, but also for those who praised America as their abode and homeland, dreamed about and fought for. "A desire for wholeness" or for an "integrative" mood (1), burgeoning in the artistic and literary experiments, spread in the social and political realm. The manifested wish of people living in the midst of change to become "subjects and objects of modernization" set for a new definition of freedom and an appeal to undertake change as an instrument ascertain both the individual's and the community's capacities to build "a home in a changing world" (2).
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