American studies : a user's guide / Philip J. Deloria and Alexander I. Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deloria, Philip Joseph, author.

Olson, Alexander I., 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Study and teaching.

United States.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"American Studies has long been a welcoming home for adventurous intellectuals. Whether blurring disciplines or fighting for social justice, students of the field have generated new ways of understanding the culture and politics of the United States in a global context. But what happens when these innovations become widely adopted? Can a shared set of "rules" become a springboard to creativity? Ideal for classroom use, American Studies: A User's Guide offers readers: a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field useful strategies for textual interpretation, archive building, contextualization, comparative analysis, and theory interwoven toolkits that provide the basic framework necessary to understanding the field"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the object of American studies

Why History?

Four American studies mixtapes

An institutional history of American studies (or, what's the matter with mixtapes?)

Method and methodology

Texts : an interpretive toolkit

Archives : a curatorial toolkit

Genres and formations : an analytical toolkit

Power : a theoretical toolkit

A few thoughts on ideas and arguments

Dispenser : a case study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Deloria, Philip Joseph. American studies.

ISBN:

9780520296794

0520296796

9780520287730

0520287738

OCLC:

978295238