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Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America de Russ Castronovo

Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Autor Russ Castronovo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2019

Prin volumul Propaganda 1776, Russ Castronovo aduce o perspectivă proaspătă și necesară asupra mitologiei fondatoare americane, propunând o recalibrare a modului în care înțelegem comunicarea politică în zorii democrației. Notăm cu interes teza centrală a autorului: succesul Revoluției nu s-a datorat exclusiv adevărurilor „de la sine înțelese” din Declarația de Independență, ci mai degrabă unei infrastructuri complexe de propagandă, zvonuri și scurgeri de informații care au catalizat opinia publică. Remarcăm modul în care Castronovo extinde cadrul propus de Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution de George Goodwin, adăugând o dimensiune critică asupra „cineticii” textelor; el nu se limitează la conținutul mesajelor, ci analizează viteza și rețelele de distribuție ca elemente revoluționare în sine. În contextul operei sale anterioare, precum The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, această lucrare continuă efortul de a chestiona coordonatele viziunii critice asupra istoriei literare, mutând accentul de pe autoritatea textului oficial pe dinamismul mediilor efemere precum foile volante sau scrisorile interceptate. Suntem de părere că rigoarea cu care sunt examinate activitățile unor figuri precum Ben Franklin sau Tom Paine oferă o imagine mult mai nuanțată a „consimțământului popular”, prezentându-l nu ca pe un produs al rațiunii pure, ci ca pe rezultatul unei manipulări strategice a informației. Structura narativă este una densă, academică, dar extrem de relevantă pentru curriculumul de istorie și studii literare, reușind să demonstreze că legătura dintre propagandă și democrație este mult mai veche și mai intrinsecă decât am fi tentați să credem.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190677497
ISBN-10: 019067749X
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 12 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria politică și de mecanismele comunicării de masă. Russ Castronovo demonstrează cum „fake news-ul” și scurgerile de informații nu sunt invenții moderne, ci unelte fundamentale care au făcut posibilă nașterea Statelor Unite. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum circulația informației, indiferent de acuratețea ei, poate răsturna regimuri și construi noi identități naționale.

Despre autor

Russ Castronovo este un distins specialist în studii literare americane, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a intersecta analiza textului cu istoria politică și socială. Activitatea sa academică este marcată de coordonarea unor volume de referință precum The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature și The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies, unde a explorat noi metodologii de investigare a culturii americane. Prin Propaganda 1776, Castronovo își consolidează autoritatea în cadrul Oxford Studies in American Literary History, oferind o cercetare minuțioasă asupra modului în care materialele tipărite au modelat conștiința politică în perioada modernă timpurie.

Descriere

1776 symbolizes a moment, both historical and mythic, of democracy in action. That year witnessed the release of a document, which Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations and spin, would later label as a masterstroke of propaganda. Although the Declaration of Independence relies heavily on the empiricism of self-evident truths, Bernays, who had authored the influential manifesto Propaganda in 1928, suggested that what made this iconic document so effective was not its sober rationalism but its inspiring message that ensured its dissemination throughout the American colonies. Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Drawing on a wide-range of resources, Russ Castronovo considers how the dispersal and circulation--indeed, the propagation--of information and opinion across the various media of the eighteenth century helped speed the flow of revolution. This book challenges conventional wisdom about propaganda as manipulation or lies by examining how popular consent and public opinion in early America relied on the spirited dissemination of rumor, forgery, and invective. While declarations about self-evident truths were important to liberty, the path toward American independence required above all else the spread of unreliable intelligence that travelled at such a pace that it could be neither confirmed nor refuted. By tracking the movements of stolen documents and leaked confidential letters, this book argues that media dissemination created a vital but seldom acknowledged connection between propaganda and democracy. The spread of revolutionary material in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, letters, songs, and poems across British North America created multiple networks that spawned new and often radical ideas about political communication. Communication itself became revolutionary in ways that revealed circulation to be propaganda's most vital content. By examining the kinetic aspects of print culture, Propaganda 1776 shows how the mobility of letters, pamphlets, and other texts amounts to political activity par excellence. With original examinations of Ben Franklin, Mercy Otis Warren, Tom Paine, and Philip Freneau, among a crowd of other notorious propagandists, this book examines how colonial men and women popularized and spread the patriot cause across America.

Recenzii

[B]oth books have done a service to the field of early North American studies in pushing our understandings of rumor, rhetoric, and, yes, propagandistic communications forward. This fascinating field, once opened, should continue to yield new insights and prompt new methods of analysis. We owe a debt to each of these authors for his work in this area.
Burke was also a shrewd political operative, who reframed issues and changed positions depending on the exigencies of the moment. It is this tactical aspect of political life-the qualities that make sports analogy often seem so apt-that comes through most clearly in Castronovo's treatment of propaganda. This focus distinguishes his approach from that of Chomsky, who critiques the mainstream news media as state-sanctioned disseminators of misinformation and propaganda froma stance of philosophical certainty. In the political writings of the Revolutionary era, Castronovo sees something more fluid and multifaceted at work, with imaginative and even playful elements being central. At its best, this book celebrates the arts of politics.
Neo-whig historians attacked progressive historians who debunked patriot 'propaganda' by telling us that American revolutionaries were true believers, if ideological, and radical in ways we can embrace without much reservation. Too often this has devolved into another version of American exceptionalism. Russ Castronovo has another take on their political talents: he finds a creative resistance to power in the modes of dissemination as much as their message. The radicalism of the Revolution is back up for grabs in this fascinating corrective.
In this fresh, provocative look at the revolutionary era, Russ Castronovo challenges our knee-jerk assumptions about propaganda and enhances our understanding of early American politics.... Castronovo encourages a deeper appreciation for revolutionary propaganda as a way to make sense of American democracy and its fractures.... Castronovo's bold reconceptualization offers plenty of tools for rethinking this crucial-and misunderstood-phenomenon.
Castronovo deftly-even audaciously-shuttles his way back and forth across the last three centuries to uncover the democratic work of propaganda operative at the nation's founding and continuing to this day. Understanding propaganda as a lateral and volatile form of 'communications in motion,' Castronovo especially challenges our ideas about Revolutionary-era texts, redefining what they meant by recovering how they moved. Propaganda 1776 will be of great interest to scholars of U.S. literary, communications, media and political history.
Propaganda 1776 is an elegantly written, compellingly conceptualized book. A provocative read from page to page, it makes an original argument about the American Revolution by reviving and revivifying the concept of propaganda.
In Propaganda 1776, Russ Castronovo sets forth a bold new paradigm of early American letters

Notă biografică

Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous books include Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.