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1 online resource (viii, 619 pages) |
| Series |
New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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| Contents |
Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman -- What's in a name? / Jan Radway -- The international within the national : American studies and Asian American critique / Lisa Lowe -- The future in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of Utopia / José Esteban Muñoz -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the emergence of transnational American studies / Donald E. Pease -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American studies / John Carols Rowe -- Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller -- The humanities in the age of expressive individualism and cultural radicalism / Winfried Fluck -- Autobiographies of the ex-white men : why race is not a social construction / Walter Benn Michaels -- Color blindness and acting out / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones -- Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity / Robyn Wiegman -- Identities and identity studies : reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The Hammer Man" / Lindon Barrett -- Hemisphere vertigo : Cuba, Quebec, and other provisional reconfigurations of "our" new America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- Marriage as treason : polygamy, nation and the novel / Nancy Bentley -- Litigious therapeutics : recovering the rights of children / Gillian Brown -- American studies in the "Age of the world picture" : thinking the question of language / William V. Spanos -- Work and culture in American studies / Michael Denning -- "Sent for you yesterday, here you come today" : American studies scholarship and the new social movements / George Lipsitz -- Toward a dialogics of international American culture studies : transnationality, border discourses, and public culture(s) / Günter H. Lenz -- American studies, American politics, and the reinvention of class / Paul Lauter -- The end of academia : the future of American studies / Eric Cheyfitz -- Nation dot com : American studies and the production of the corporatist citizen / Russ Castronovo -- ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson |
| Summary |
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American Studies considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist--and antinationalist--discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars.--Publisher website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-608) 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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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Social conditions
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Education
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Study skills -- Forecasting
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Amerikanistik
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Amerikanistiek.
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United States -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140557
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United States -- Study and teaching -- Forecasting
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pease, Donald E., editor.
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Wiegman, Robyn, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822384199 |
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0822384191 |
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1282920448 |
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9781282920446 |
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9786612920448 |
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6612920440 |
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