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American Elegy: Reflections On 250 Years Of The DisUnited States Of America
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Before There Was The United States, There Was America. The Former Is A Country, A Nation, A Geographic Reality, But The Latter Is An Idea. Invented More Than Discovered, America Signified A Revolutionary Ideal Of Freedom, Liberty, Equality, And Justice, What Tom Paine In Common Sense Meant When He Wrote That We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Over Again.Among The Greatest Expressions Of That Faith Was The Declaration Of Independence With Its Promise To Forge A Nation Dedicated To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness. American Society And Culture Have Always Existed Within The Gulf Of Our Stated Aspirations And The Actual Reality, Which Has Necessitated The Forging Of Prophetic Voices From Walt Whitman To Toni Morrison, Herman Melville To James Baldwin. Now, Just As We Prepare For The 250Th Anniversary Of The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence, The United States Is Succumbing To Authoritarianism And The Noxious BloodAndSoil Nationalism Which Curses The Faith In The Universal And Indispensable America.In Response To This Moment, Noted Cultural Critic Ed Simon Offers A Rejoinder In American Elegy: Reflections On 250 Years Of The DisUnited States Of America. Compiling An Assemblage ThatS Less A Canon Than A Cultural Mixtape, Simon Presents Fifty Short Chapters That Are Asynchronously Organized Works Of Flash Criticism, Meant To Draw Connections Across Time Periods, Which Each Celebrate An Aspect Of The America ThatS Larger, Deeper, And Broader Than The Mere United States. Here The Great American Novel Meets The Great American Songbook; Sign Language Converses With The Blues; Method Acting Shares The Stage With Afrofuturism, And Superman Plays Baseball. Defining Literature As Broadly As Possible, Each Of The Works Profiled Critiques The Status Quo And Imagines A Better World.As Cynical Politicians Deny The Diversity, Complexity, And Actual Beauty Of American Culture In Favor Of Myths About The Nation Being Made Great Again, Simon Provides Not Just An Elegy, But A Challenge And Celebration, As Well As A Repository, An Archive, And A Call To Start Over. In The Tradition Of Gary Wills And Greil Marcus, American Elegy Charts A Course To A Land Still Undiscovered.
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