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Much of the discussion in this study has been interested in a question of identity. In a key respect this is as much an existential question as it is one of politics and power. In other words, the problematic of identity is bound closely to the meaningfulness of existence for Americans and, indeed, for many non-Americans around the world. In particular, this question of meaningfulness is critical to the idea of American ‘personhood’ as represented in the hegemonic cultural identity in a condition of hybridity and in those oppositional discourses juxtaposed to, and experienced through, this cultural condition.
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Renwick, N. (2000). Floating in Hyper-Reality: The Global Republic Imagined. In: America’s World Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597945_6
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