The international turn in American studies / Marietta Messmer, Armin Paul Frank (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Messmer, Marietta, editor, author, editor.

Frank, Armin Paul, editor, author, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang) ; v. 7.

Interamericana, 1618-419X ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

United States.

United States--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Civilization--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2015]

Summary:

The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and strengthened national borders alongside multiple challenges to national sovereignty. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: transcending borders: the international turn in American studies / Marietta Messmer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

The semantics of self-denial: the new American studies through the lens of Luhman social systems theory / Michael Boyden, Uppsala University, Sweden

If Bolton were to awake today: early efforts towards a comprehensive hemispheric history of the Americas / Ricardo Salvatore, University Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina

And never the twain shall meet: considering the legacies of orientalism and occidentalism for the transnational study of the u.s. / Jane Desmond, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A

Inter-american literary studies in the early twenty-first century: the view from the United States / Earl E. Fitz, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A

Difference matters: toward an inter-American approach to race, ethnicity, and belonging / Josef Raab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Inter-(African-Latin) American: an experiment in inter-location / Amos Nascimento, University of Washington, Tacoma, U.S.A

Transnationality and temporality in early African American texts / Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, University of Leipzig, Germany

A rationale for a comprehensive study of the history of United States literary culture / Armin Paul Frank, Gottingen University, Germany

The literary world in the American renaissance and the international context of American studies / Daniel Gaske, Kassel University, Germany

Inter-American studies as an emerging field: the future of a discipline / Earl E. Fitz, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A

Theorizing the hemisphere: inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies / Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, U.S.A., and Claire F. Fox, University of Iowa, U.S.A

American studies without tears, or what does America want / Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783631647998

3631647999

OCLC:

919068252

Publisher Number:

99964706557

9783631647998