Founding Fictions(English, Hardcover, Mercieca Jennifer)

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Founding Fictions(English, Hardcover, Mercieca Jennifer) is written by Mercieca Jennifer and published by The University of Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0817316906 (ISBN 10) and 9780817316907 (ISBN 13).

Part political history, part rhetorical criticism, Founding Fictions is an extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845. It critically re-interrogates our fundamental assumptions about a government based upon the will of the people, with profound implications for our ability to assess democracy today. Founding Fictions develops the concept of a 'political fiction,' or a narrative that people tell about their own political theories, and analyzes how republican and democratic fictions positioned American citizens as either romantic heroes, tragic victims, or ironic partisans. By re-telling the stories that Americans have told themselves about citizenship, Mercieca highlights an important contradiction in American political theory and practice: that national stability and active citizen participation are perceived as fundamentally at odds.