THE UNITED STATES

Sandra Vega Carrero

“North America is a place where different identities mix and collide, and assemblage

a multiplicity, constantly producing and reproducing new selves and transforming

old ones” Bradbury, 1981 p. 20

Class Ethnicity Gender Race

Divisions in American life

Class Ethnicity Gender Race

Divisions in American life

It is difficult to talk about a single and closed notion of identity and values

Historical Political

Traditions

The music in the early America

Was created as people from

Other countries immigrated to America

1500s

England

Immigrants from England

England

Colonists

Religious persecution

Immigrants from England

England

Colonists

Religious persecution

MonarchismEstablish a state

governed by religious principles

Immigrants from England

England

Colonists

Religious persecution

King GOD

Immigrants from England

England

Colonists

Adventure

Restrictions of European Societies

“Freedom”

First writers of early America

Reflected their English

backgrounds

Subject was mostly religious

First writers of early America

Poems and preparatory

meditations before the Lord’s Supper

XVIII Century

Benjamin Franklin Tomas Jefferson

XVIII Century

Their perspectives changed

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

Knowledge (5) Senses

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

Knowledge (5) Senses

Social

scientific

Economic

Political

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

Knowledge (5) Senses

Social

scientific

Economic

Political

Religious

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

Knowledge (5) Senses

Social

scientific

Economic

Political

New Culture in American life

XVIII Century

Natural World Spiritual World

Knowledge (5) Senses

Social

scientific

Economic

Political

New Culture in American life

Materialism

XIX Century

Washington Irving

XIX Century

Washington Irving

Created short stories

XIX Century

Washington Irving

Created short stories

Humorist

Folklorist

XIX Century

Washington Irving

Created short stories

Humorist

Folklorist

Entertain

XIX Century

Washington Irving

XIX Century Transcendentalism

Immanuel Kant

XIX Century Transcendentalism

The mind isn’t a blanktablet or sheet of

blank paper.

KANT

XIX Century Transcendentalism

The mind isn’t a blanktablet or sheet of

blank paper.

KANT

XIX Century Transcendentalism

KANTThe mind contains

certain universally

acknowledged truths, and from

birth instinctively reads

this truths rather than writing them.

XIX Century Transcendentalism

Self - development

INDIVIDUAL, not Society

XIX Century Transcendentalism

Self - development

INDIVIDUAL, not Society

“Humans could experience divinity directly through

nature, a spiritual practice in which no mediation, such as through the churches, was

needed”

XIX Century Transcendentalism

Auto - didactism

Not Imitation or repetition