Participation in American Culture and Society / Philipp Löffler [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Löffler, Philipp, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social participation--United States.

Social participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

Participation is a core value of the U.S.-American concept of the nation. The promise of participation encompasses full and equal access to participate in political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities. At the same time, exclusion from social participation has been salient in the history of the U.S., and recently even a decline in participation alongside growing polarization can be observed. The notion of participation, however, is more comprehensive than such a narrow political perspective may suggest. Forms of literary production and reception can likewise be understood as social practices of participation. This volume sheds light on how participation has been debated in contemporary Americanist scholarship. The papers included explore the idea of participation beyond its function as a political principle in a democratic nation-state, which will help to understand in more detail the diverse relationships between the literary, the cultural, and the political.

Contents:

Cover

Titel

Imprint

Contents

Preface

PHILIPP LÖFFLER, MARGIT PETERFY, NATALIE RAUSCHER, WELF WERNER: Introduction: Participation in Crisis?

Section I: Politics and Society

CAROL ANDERSON: One Person, No Vote: Rigging the Rules

JUDY TZU-CHUN WU: Pacific Feminist Imaginaries: The 1977 US National Women's Conference and the Politics of Territorial Representation

LAURA KETTEL: Unequal Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and Exclusion in the American City

SILKE BRASELMANN: Teaching About Black Lives Matter, Teaching Against Racism: Opportunities for Participation in Antiracist English Language Teacher Education

HELEN A. GIBSON: Teaching Towards Calvin Warren's Nonmetaphysical Historiography

Section II: Literary Studies and the Arts

ANDREW ERICKSON: Refusing American History: Non-participation and Narrative Resistance in Ta-Nehisi Coates's ‚The Water Dancer'

MARCEL HARTWIG: ‚Felon', Convict, Attorney: Reginald Dwayne Betts and the Poetics of Re-Entry

MAGDA MAJEWSKA: The Literary Prestige of Censorship: The Case of ‚Naked Lunch'

TIM LANZENDÖRFER: Participatory Literary Studies and the Question of Public Method

KIRSTEN TWELBECK: Community Engagement and Participation in Wheatfield. A Confrontation

Section III: Media Landscapes

MARTIN BUTLER: The Audience Strikes Back… Or Does It? Formations of Participation and the Figure of the Amateur in New Media Environments

JULIANN KNAUS: Participatory Platform versus Condemning Community: In/Exclusion in the Black Natural Hair Movement on YouTube

LENA GOTTESWINTER: Appropriation as Participation: A 21ˢᵗ-Century Reshaping of the Cultural Memory of Hip

TAMARA HEGER: Who gets to be a Liberator? Participation and Recognition in Robert W. Hacker's ‚Flossenbürg Concentration Camp'

List of Contributors

Backcover.

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ISBN:

3-8253-8666-X