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Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family
Manage episode 385177458 series 3001946
What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer past suggest an isolated and self-sufficient nuclear family as the center of American identity and the source of American strength. But the idea of early American self-sufficiency is a myth. Caro Pirri tells the story of the precarious Jamestown settlement and how its residents depended on each other and on Indigenous Americans for survival. Early American history can help us imagine new kinds of interdependent and multi-generational family structures as an antidote to the modern crisis of loneliness and alienation.
Researcher, writer, and episode producer: Caro Pirri, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Featured Scholars:
Jean Feerick, Professor of English, John Carroll University
Steven Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University
Special thanks: Molly Warsh
For bibliography, teaching aids, and other supporting media, please visit: https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/podcast-season-ii-ep-iv
12 episodes
Manage episode 385177458 series 3001946
What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer past suggest an isolated and self-sufficient nuclear family as the center of American identity and the source of American strength. But the idea of early American self-sufficiency is a myth. Caro Pirri tells the story of the precarious Jamestown settlement and how its residents depended on each other and on Indigenous Americans for survival. Early American history can help us imagine new kinds of interdependent and multi-generational family structures as an antidote to the modern crisis of loneliness and alienation.
Researcher, writer, and episode producer: Caro Pirri, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Featured Scholars:
Jean Feerick, Professor of English, John Carroll University
Steven Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University
Special thanks: Molly Warsh
For bibliography, teaching aids, and other supporting media, please visit: https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/podcast-season-ii-ep-iv
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