Re-framing the transnational turn in American studies

Re-framing the transnational turn in American studies /

What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Fluck, Winfried, Pease, Donald E., Rowe, John Carlos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, 2011
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and transnationalism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I A POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL MELANCHOLIA
  • 1. Diasporic Doubles: Philip Roth's Operation Shylock / Ulla Haselstein
  • 2."Death Is So Permanent. Drive Carefully.": European Ruins and American Studies circa 1948 / Andrew S. Gross
  • 3. Landscapes of Trauma: The Transnational Dislocation of Vietnam's War Trauma in Alfredo Vea's Gods Go Begging / William Arce
  • 4. The Racial State and the Transatlantic Famine Irish / Peter D. O'Neill
  • pt. II RE-DISCIPLINIZING TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES
  • 5. Men in Boats and Flaming Skies: American Painting and National Self-Recognition / Winfried Fluck
  • 6. Portraying Transnational America: Aesthetic and Political Dimensions in Winold Reiss's "Plea for Color" / Frank Mehring
  • 7. Liberty: A Transnational Icon / Sieglinde Lemke
  • 8. Belonging and Transnational American Studies: Reflections on a Critical Approach and a Reading of Richard Powers's The Echo Maker / Laura Bieger.
  • Note continued: pt. III TRANSNATIONAL PEDAGOGIES
  • 9. American Studies as Mobility Studies: Some Terms and Constellations / Rudiger Kunow
  • 10. Resistance without Borders: Shifting Cultural Politics in Chicana/o Narratives / Marc Priewe
  • 11. Transnational Configurations in New Media: Identity Performance and Community on the Social Web / Reinhard Isensee
  • 12. Protocols from the Playing Field: (Digital) Stories of Commitment and Intervention / Matthias Oppermann
  • pt. IV TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENTALITIES
  • 13. Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe
  • 14. Andean Gateways: Transnational Healing and Spiritual Tourism in the Sacred Valley, Peru / Macarena Gomez-Barris
  • 15. Utopias of Transnationalism and the Neoliberal State / Johannes Voelz
  • 16. Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History / Nancy Fraser
  • 17. Toward a Politics of American Transcultural Studies: Discourses of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism / Gunter H. Lenz.

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