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1 online resource (viii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
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American studies after American exceptionalism? : toward a comparative analysis of imperial state exceptionalisms / Donald E. Pease -- Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin -- Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin -- Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. Thompson -- Chronotopes of a dystopic nation: cultures of dependency and border crossings in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Transpacific complicity and comparatist strategy: failure in decolonization and the rise of Japanese nationalism / Naoki Sakai -- War in several tongues: nations, languages, genres / Wai Chee Dimock -- Neo-orientalism / Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams -- American studies in motion: Tehran, Hyderabad, Cairo / Brian T. Edwards |
| Summary |
The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field's transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies . The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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| Subject |
Exceptionalism -- United States
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Americanists -- Philosophy
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Exceptionalism
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Education
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United States -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140557
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Edwards, Brian T., 1968-
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Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780226185088 |
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0226185087 |
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1283058189 |
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9781283058186 |
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