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A concise companion to American studies / edited by John Carlos Rowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (476 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the ""new"" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the "new" American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the re
- Contents:
- A Concise Companion to American Studies; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Foundations and Backgrounds; CHAPTER ONE Puritan Origins; CHAPTER TWO Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies,1851-1942; CHAPTER THREE The Laboring of American Culture; CHAPTER FOURIs Class an American Study?; CHAPTER FIVE Religious Studies; CHAPTER SIX American Languages; PART II Ethnic Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER SEVEN Blood Lines and BloodShed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER EIGHT Native American Studies
- CHAPTER NINE The Locations ofChicano/a and Latino/a Studies CHAPTER TEN African American Studies; CHAPTER ELEVEN Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique; PART Tithe New American Studies; CHAPTER TWELVE Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Culture, US Imperialism,and Globalization; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's ""The Foreigner"" and the Spanish-American War; CHAPTER Sixteenth Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies
- CHAPTER Seventeenth World Wide Web and Digital Culture:New Borders, New Media,New American Studies PART IV Problems and Issues; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Regionalism; CHAPTER NINETEEN The West and Manifest Destiny; CHAPTER TWENTY Canadian Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Popular, Mass, and High Culture; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612548321
- 9781282548329
- 1282548328
- 9781444331745
- 1444331744
- 9781780340449
- 1780340443
- 9781444319071
- 1444319078
- 9781444319088
- 1444319086
- OCLC:
- 605036332
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