Christopher Collins is Professor of English at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He is the author of several books including Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (Penn State, 1991).

• ContentsPreface: Tracking Down an Old Story1.Homeland and Its Discontents2.Biblical Time and the Full Narrative Cycle3.Myths of Curses, Myths of Blessings4.Narratives of the Night5.Abduction Narratives6.Homeland Nostalgia and Holy War7.Secular Modernism, Biblical StyleNotesBibliographyIndex

“For too long, scholars assumed that national policy could be understood in terms of rational choice economics and game theory. Fortunately, we are coming again to realize the power of stories in our national rhetoric. Homeland Mythology is a timely and engaging analysis of what it means for America to be our home. Christopher Collins has done us a great service in examining the roots of many of our unexamined national myths.”—Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, author of American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short

Christopher Collins is Professor of English at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He is the author of several books including Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (Penn State, 1991).

• ContentsPreface: Tracking Down an Old Story1.Homeland and Its Discontents2.Biblical Time and the Full Narrative Cycle3.Myths of Curses, Myths of Blessings4.Narratives of the Night5.Abduction Narratives6.Homeland Nostalgia and Holy War7.Secular Modernism, Biblical StyleNotesBibliographyIndex

“For too long, scholars assumed that national policy could be understood in terms of rational choice economics and game theory. Fortunately, we are coming again to realize the power of stories in our national rhetoric. Homeland Mythology is a timely and engaging analysis of what it means for America to be our home. Christopher Collins has done us a great service in examining the roots of many of our unexamined national myths.”—Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, author of American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short

Christopher Collins is Professor of English at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He is the author of several books including Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (Penn State, 1991).

• ContentsPreface: Tracking Down an Old Story1.Homeland and Its Discontents2.Biblical Time and the Full Narrative Cycle3.Myths of Curses, Myths of Blessings4.Narratives of the Night5.Abduction Narratives6.Homeland Nostalgia and Holy War7.Secular Modernism, Biblical StyleNotesBibliographyIndex

“For too long, scholars assumed that national policy could be understood in terms of rational choice economics and game theory. Fortunately, we are coming again to realize the power of stories in our national rhetoric. Homeland Mythology is a timely and engaging analysis of what it means for America to be our home. Christopher Collins has done us a great service in examining the roots of many of our unexamined national myths.”—Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, author of American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short