RT Generic
T1 Make America Great Again: American identity through its texts
A1 Alonso Cascallana, Mario
K1 Donald Trump
K1 Make America Great Again
K1 Identidade nacional norteamericana
K1 A Model of Christian Charity
K1 John Winthrop
K1 Letters from an American Farmer
K1 John de Cravecoeur
K1 Declaración de Independencia dos Estados Unidos
K1 Pais fundadores dos Estados Unidos
AB The interest on this topic comes from a personal experience. While I was living in Arkansas, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States. The recurrent slogan through his campaign, Make America Great Again, made me question what the true essence of the American identity is, as well as the foundations, goals and rights this country truly defends. In order to really find out what the American identity is, I will analyse different texts from the colonial times, such as John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity", "Letters from an American Farmer" by John de Crevecoeur, some texts written by the Founding Fathers as the "Declaration of Independence", and others. The final step in the present essay will be to connect these texts and ideas to Trump's discourse, in a comparative analysis centred on the "true" American identity. Hence, the ultimate goal of this essay is to analyse the "Make America Great Again" speech as a genuinely American product, trying to find out whether Trump's discourse shares some parallelism to the United States' founding documents
YR 2018
FD 2018-11-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23620
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23620
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026