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CFP: "Vast Early America" Panel (Strasbourg, 6-9 June 2017)
Discussion published by Emmanuelle Perez on Friday, January 13, 2017
Dear colleagues,
Please find in this e-mail a CFP for a panel on Vast Early America for the French Association of
American Studies this June 2017 (6-9), in Strasbourg, France. Contact us as quickly as possible if
interested !
All our wishes for the New Year
Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant ([email protected])
Tangi Villerbu ([email protected])
#VastEarlyAmerica Repositioning the foundation narrative of the United States : Towards a
history of North America
Generally, the history of the United States is built on a narrative that is firmly rooted in the East, in
the 13 colonies who rebelled against the British Crown, proclaimed their independence in 1776, were
recognized as such in 1783 and who, as the United States, founded a new political model outside
Europe. Flawed, tainted by slavery despite its democratic ideals, this model is presented as having
broken down at the onset of the Civil War, before reinvented itself. However, approaches focusing on
race, gender, and class, for example, have completed this narrative model and offered new ways of
describing the United States, repositioning it socially and widening its scope beyond the white elites
who long dominated the nation’s history. This repositioning, or decentering, is also spatial, taking
into account the spatial expansion of the United States and the integration of societies and territories
that were not part of the original British colonies. In the manner of historian Karin Wulf’s ongoing
project, the goal of this workshop is to portray a “vast early America”, made of interconnected
regional histories, that is sensitive to the globalized history of the United States.
In this workshop, we would like to contribute to this project through presentations that show how a
perspective that is regional, even peripheral or considered as such, can shed new light on the
construction of the United States.
Bibliographie/Bibliography
Kathleen DUVAL, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, 2015
Daniel K RICHTER, Facing east from Indian country: a Native history of early America, Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001
Claudio SAUNT, West of the Revolution: an uncommon history of 1776, 2014
Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant ([email protected])
Tangi Villerbu ([email protected])
AFEA 2017, Strasbourg 6-9 juin 2017
#VastEarlyAmerica. "Pour une histoire de l’Amérique du Nord»
Classiquement, l’histoire des États-Unis s’est adossée à un récit ancré à l’Est, dans les Treize colonies
qui se sont soulevées contre la Couronne britannique, ont proclamé leur indépendance en 1776, l’ont
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obtenue aux yeux du monde en 1783 et auraient, en tant qu’Etats-Unis, fondé un nouveau modèle
politique outre-Atlantique. Imparfait, marqué par l’esclavage malgré l’idéal démocratique, ce modèle
se serait brisé dans la Guerre de Sécession avant d’être réinventé. Néanmoins ce modèle narratif a
été complété grâce à des approches par la race, le genre, la classe par exemple, qui ont permis de
renouveler les manières de dire les Etats-Unis et ont permis une première forme de décentrement et
d’élargissement social, au-delà des élites blanches autour desquelles a longtemps tourné l’histoire du
pays. Ce décentrement est désormais aussi spatial, tenant compte de la croissance spatiale des ÉtatsUnis et de l’intégration de sociétés et territoires non compris dans ces colonies britanniques
fondatrices. Comme l’a proposé l’historienne Karin Wulf, l’objectif de cet atelier est de brosser le
portrait d’une « vast early America » aux histoires régionales connectées, qui tienne compte d’une
histoire étasunienne globalisée.
Nous voulons dans cet atelier contribuer à ce mouvement par des communications mettant en
évidence comment la perspective régionale, voire périphérique ou considérée comme telle éclaire
sous un jour nouveau la construction des États-Unis.
Citation: Emmanuelle Perez. CFP: "Vast Early America" Panel (Strasbourg, 6-9 June 2017). H-Empire. 01-13-2017. https://networks.hnet.org/node/5293/discussions/161323/cfp-vast-early-america-panel-strasbourg-6-9-june-2017
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