The Expendable Citizen:Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Sentiment in American Culture
This study argues that the American citizen’s choice to perform or not perform sacrificial national duties has been heavily mediated by sentimental representations of sacrifice in popular narratives. Through an analysis of the American captivity narrative from its origins in the seventeenth century...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3443 |
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