Post-Nationalist American Studies
Title | Post-Nationalist American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2000-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520224396 |
Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the subject.
The New American Studies
Title | The New American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780816635788 |
Post-Nationalist American Studies
Title | Post-Nationalist American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2000-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520224391 |
Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the subject.
A Concise Companion to American Studies
Title | A Concise Companion to American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2010-02-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781444319088 |
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 relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies
Death of a Nation
Title | Death of a Nation PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Noble |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816640805 |
In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who did not fit the elite vision: people of color, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. David W. Noble, a preeminent figure in American studies, inherited this ideology. However, like many who entered the field in the 1940s, he rejected the ideals of his intellectual predecessors and sought a new, multicultural, postnational scholarship. Throughout his career, Noble has examined this rupture in American intellectual life. In Death of a Nation, he presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. Exploring the roots of American exceptionalism, Noble demonstrates that it was a doomed ideology. Capitalists who believed in a bounded nationalism also depended on a boundless, international marketplace. This contradiction was inherently unstable, and the belief in a unified national landscape exploded in World War II. The rupture provided an opening for alternative narratives as class, ethnicity, race, and region were reclaimed as part of the nation's history. Noble traces the effects of this shift among scholars and artists, and shows how even today they struggle to imagine an alternative post-national narrative and seek the meaning of local and national cultures in an increasingly transnational world. While Noble illustrates the challenges thatthe paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future.
Globalizing American Studies
Title | Globalizing American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Brian T. Edwards |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2010-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226185087 |
The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field’s transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies. The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture: the traffic of American movies within the British Empire, the reception of the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab world, the parallels between Japanese and American styles of nativism, and new incarnations of American studies itself in the Middle East and South Asia. The essays elicit a forgotten multilateralism long inherent in American history and provide vivid accounts of post–Revolutionary science communities, late-nineteenth century Mexican border crossings, African American internationalism, Cold War womanhood in the United States and Soviet Russia, and the neo-Orientalism of the new obsession with Iran, among others. Bringing together established scholars already associated with the global turn in American studies with contributors who specialize in African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, media studies, anthropology, and other areas, Globalizing American Studies is an original response to an important disciplinary shift in academia.
Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts
Title | Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfried Raussert |
Publisher | Universitatsverlag Winter |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The contributions engage with literary, political and cultural practices in America, past and present, set out to transcend long established paradigms of an American "exceptionalism" or critical approaches that hold on to the notion of a core Americanness as a single nationalist mythology of the United States. "America" then functions as a signifier that is configured in and by its presence outside and beyond the national borders of the United States of America. The overall thrust of our volume draws upon concepts of the "New American Studies," especially "Post-Nationalist American Studies."