The futures of American studies / edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pease, Donald E.

Wiegman, Robyn.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Study and teaching.

United States.

United States--Study and teaching--Forecasting.

United States--Social conditions--1980-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (631 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f

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 / Jose Esteban Munoz

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 Gutierrez-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) / Gunter 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-608) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920448

9781282920446

1282920448

9780822384199

0822384191

OCLC:

654540882