Patrick Colm Hogan, a leading theorist of cognitive cultural studies, offers the first cognitive cultural study of identity in sex, sexuality, and gender.

The book provides a clear, systematic account of personal identity that is theoretically strong, but also unique and engaging.

Patrick Colm Hogan extends his earlier work to argue that story genres play a prominent role in the fashioning of postcolonization literature, encompassing both the colonial and postcolonial periods.

This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions.

This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals.

These are the central claims of Hogan's study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological, and other empirical research.

In his preface, Hogan discusses developments in semantics and related fields that have occurred over the decade since the book first appeared.

American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature.

Drawing on recent psychological research, this book proposes a new and clear definition of "style" and provides a systematic theoretical account of style in relation to cognitive and affective science.

The book concludes by considering when, or if, one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition.