Cultural Myths of Global-Age America: Toward A Critical Glossary
Cultural Myths of Global-Age America: Toward A Critical Glossary

Summary/Abstract: Part of a bigger enterprise, this is an inquiry into the media and media-reinforced cultural mythology of the United States in the post-Cold War globalization era. The format is the “critical glossary” or “lexicon” made famous by a number of authors, most famously—in recent critical theory—by Roland Barthes. Basically, the glossary below represents one possible attempt to imagine how Barthes’s Mythologies might look like if one rewrote it with the 21st-century U. S. as its focus. The methodology of counter-mythography developed below represents, in this context, both an extension and a critical retooling of Barthes’s approach.

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