“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”

Founders Chic and Narrative Awareness in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage55en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage75en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume14en_US
dc.contributor.authorWeiher, Emma Charlotte
dc.contributor.editorArnold, Vanessa
dc.contributor.editorBenthin, Pia
dc.contributor.editorErnst, Ella
dc.contributor.editorHintz, Peter
dc.contributor.editorHirschmann, Leonie
dc.contributor.editorJean-Louis, Solina
dc.contributor.editorKloss, Solveig
dc.contributor.editorMarsh, Josette
dc.contributor.editorNostitz, Christoph
dc.contributor.editorPröger, Laura Michelle
dc.contributor.editorRainov, George
dc.contributor.editorTaubmann, Nino
dc.contributor.editorWolfe, John Danson
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T14:49:08Z
dc.date.available2022-12-08T14:49:08Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractWith its recent addition to the streaming service Disney+, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 Broadway production Hamilton: An American Musical has once again entered cultural discourse. While lauded for its appraisal of Alexander Hamilton’s life as an immigrant’s story and as a revisualization and presumed reclamation of America’s past through the lens of an almost exclusively nonwhite cast and group of creators, the musical has also been subject to criticism. Early critics aptly categorized it as another component of Founders Chic and questioned its presumed progressive stance on history-writing in the face of its veneration of the Founding Fathers. The following paper aims to discern the musical’s awareness of its position within history through the analysis of relevant lyrics and rhetorical devices. Hamilton is thus presented as a piece of history-writing aware of the process of historical reenvisioning, carefully and individually established through its respective generational, political, and sociological ideals and identity.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.14-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2754
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:700en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:780en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:973en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldtheatrestudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldhistoryen_US
dc.title“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”en_US
dc.title.alternativeFounders Chic and Narrative Awareness in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamiltonen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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