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Changing Faces of Change: Metanarratives in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Julkaisun tekijät: Albion M. Butters
Kustantaja: European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Julkaisuvuosi: 2017
Journal: European Journal of American Studies
Lehden akronyymi: EJAS
Volyymi: 12
Julkaisunumero: 2
Sivujen määrä: 22
ISSN: 1991-9336
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ejas.12116
Verkko-osoite: https://ejas.revues.org/12116
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/25797914
This article explores the significance of the theme of “change” in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, going beyond its rhetorical use by the candidates or as a way of defining a historic electoral shift (making an “election of change”) to examine how change played a critical role in the political landscape itself. One can locate voters’ desire for change in many existing conditions leading up to the race, but also ideologically and as a force in its own right. Framing of the election as a story reveals that the various actors were increasingly aware of their shifting identities, representations, and agency; thus, change was not just a plot of the story, frequently expressed in terms of populism and popular culture, but a fundamental dynamic behind competing metanarratives and contestations of how the story should be told.
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