Discourses that matter : selected essays on English and American studies / edited by Maria José Florentino Mendes Canelo [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendes Canelo, Maria José Florentino.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can English and American Studies be instrumental to conceptualizing the deep instability we are presently facing? How can they address the coordinates of this instability, such as war, terrorism, the current economic and financial crisis, and the consequent myriad forms of deprivation and fear? How can they tackle the strategies of de-humanization, invisibility, and the naturalization of inequality and injustice entailed in contemporary discourses? This anthology grew out of an awareness of the need to debate the role of English and American Studies both in the present context and in relat

Contents:

section I. Language as witness

section II. Performative discourses

section III. Exceptionalism and power

section Ivolume Discourses of gender and identity

section volume Discourses of race and ethnicity

section VI. Literature and interculturality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5328-3

OCLC:

859834279