Word: nationhoodã
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Having reduced nationhood??or at least its emblematic expression—to a set of shapes, Miller assigns a geometric pattern to each of the characters in Birth, and then allows Griffith’s Birth to pick up the fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...
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