410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
The History of Literature
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Are They Crazy? What Are They Even Thinking?
I'm fascinated by this idea about the stories that groups of people tell themselves in order to create an identity or a nation. One of the first things that struck me when the news started coming out was that hearing that russians were being told and believing that they were denoifying this country. And my first thought was, it made them seem almost brain wash to me. But then i thought about my own life and the way that i've looked at being an american. Right? So we are.
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