The international turn in American studies / Marietta Messmer, Armin Paul Frank, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messmer, Marietta, Editor.

Contributor:

Messmer, Marietta, editor.

Frank, Armin Paul, editor.

Series:

Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang) ; Volume 7.

Interamericana, 1618-419X ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--1945-65.

United States.

United States--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

0 ed.

Place of Publication:

Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2015

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : Peter Lang GmbH, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction: transcending borders: the international turn in American studies / Marietta Messmer

The semantics of self-denial: the new American studies through the lens of Luhmann's social systems theory / Michael Boyden

If Bolton were to awake today: early efforts towards a comprehensive hemispheric history of the Americas / Ricardo D. Salvatore

"And never the twain shall meet?": considering the legacies of orientalism and occidentalism for the transnational study of the U.S. / Jane C. Desmond

Inter-American literary studies in the early twenty-first century: the view from the United States / Earl E. Fitz

Difference matters: toward an inter-American approach to 'race', ethnicity, and belonging / Josef Raab

Inter-(African-Latin) American: an experiment in "inter-location" / Amós Nascimento

Transnationality and temporality in early African American texts / Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez

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

The literary world in the "American renaissance" and the international context of American studies / Daniel Göske

Inter-American studies as an emerging field: the future of a discipline / Earl E. Fitz

Theorizing the hemisphere: inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies / Claudia Sadowski-Smith & Claire F. Fox

American studies without tears, or what does America want? / Liam Kennedy.

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ISBN:

3-653-03657-7

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access