Post-nationalist American studies / edited by John Carlos Rowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowe, John Carlos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Study and teaching--United States.

Nationalism.

Cultural pluralism--Study and teaching--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

United States--Civilization--Study and teaching.

United States.

United States--Civilization--1970---Study and teaching.

United States--Ethnic relations--Study and teaching.

United States--Race relations--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era. The goal of the book's contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than canonizes them. Articulating new ways to think about American Studies, these essays demonstrate how diverse the field has become. Contributors are concerned with cross-cultural communication, race and gender, global and local identities, and the complex tensions between symbolic and political economies. Their essays explore, among other topics, the construction of "foreign" peoples and cultures; the notion of borders-territorial, racial, economic, and sexual; the "multilingual reality" of the United States; the place of the Mexican-American War in U.S. history; and the significance of Tiger Woods in today's global market of consumption. Together, the essays propose a renewed vision of the United States' role in the world and how American Studies scholarship can address that vision. Each contributor includes a sample syllabus showing how the issues discussed in individual essays can be brought into the classroom.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies

Creating the Multicultural Nation

Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies

Foreign Affairs

Making Comparisons

Race, Nation, Equality

Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848

My Border Stories

How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612758850

9781597348263

1597348260

9780520925267

0520925262

9781282758858

1282758853

OCLC:

475927682