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American Fantastic: Myths of Violence and Redemption

American Fantastic: Myths of Violence and Redemption

Thiess, Derek J.

Hardcover

Mythology & FolkloreCriminologyGeneral United States History

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ISBN10: 0299355101
ISBN13: 9780299355104
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
American Fantastic challenges readers to recognize an organizing myth in America's perception of its imperialist past, the myth of redemptive violence. Derek J. Thiess persuasively argues that this myth serves to obscure the deep thread of Christian supremacy that underwrites America's colonial and imperial impulses, from the early colonial period to westward expansion to the contemporary global order. This American imaginary, which enmeshes religion with violence, is constructed in multiple contentious and productive contact zones: between genres, between cultures, and between past and present.

Thiess's interdisciplinary study examines America's past and present imperial projects, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Eastern Seaboard, as they proliferate in popular story forms. By interrogating American myths, legends, and fantastic narratives across an impressive array of genres, including folk narratives, science fiction, movies, and more, Thiess exposes how the myth of redemptive violence manifests in contemporary constructions of America's fantastic imaginaries.

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