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A concise companion to American studies
Title
A concise companion to American studies / edited by John Carlos Rowe.
ISBN
9781444319071
1444319078
9781444319088
1444319086
9781405109246
1405109246
1282548328
9781282548329
9786612548321
6612548320
1444331744
9781444331745
1780340443
9781780340449
Published
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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1 online resource (448)
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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 disciplineAddresses 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-colonialismExplores the re.
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Print version: Concise companion to American studies. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2024
Series
Blackwell companions in cultural studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
Foundations and Backgrounds
Chapter One
Puritan Origins
Chapter Two
Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies, 18518211;1942
Chapter Three
The Laboring of American Culture
Chapter Four
Is Class an American Study?
Chapter Five
Religious Studies
Chapter Six
American Languages
Part II
Ethnic Studies and American Studies
Chapter Seven
Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and Americ
Chapter Eight
Native American Studies
Chapter Nine
The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
Chapter Ten
African American Studies
Chapter Eleven
Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique
Part III
The 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 Spanish8211;American War
Chapter Sixteen
The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies
Chapter Seventeen
The 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.
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