American Lives
edited by Alfred Hornung
Hardback (Published)
(June 2013)
ISBN: 9783825361792
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $89.00
In stock
This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Dawes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hustvedt among others cover the wide range of the presentation and performance of selves in colonial literature, nature writing, immigrant and campaign auto/biographies, religion, film, TV series, rap music, graphic presentations, comics, and sports. Addressing the transnational self-affirmations of American citizens in Hawai’i, the Caribbean islands, on reservations, and in urban ghettos they represent the diversified panorama of American lives.
This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Dawes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hustvedt among others cover the wide range of the presentation and performance of selves in colonial literature, nature writing, immigrant and campaign auto/biographies, religion, film, TV series, rap music, graphic presentations, comics, and sports. Addressing the transnational self-affirmations of American citizens in Hawai’i, the Caribbean islands, on reservations, and in urban ghettos they represent the diversified panorama of American lives.
- Edited by Alfred Hornung
Other Titles in this Series
The Native American Declaration of Independence
William Apess's Reflections of Ethnic Consciousness
Volume 156
The Culture of Corporeality
Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960
Volume 151
Walking in the Wilderness
The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
Volume 134
American Studies/Shifting Gears
A Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies'
Volume 185
Migration – Miscegenation – Transculturation
Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century
Volume 114
Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography
Cinema, Automediality and Grammatology with 'Film Portrait' and 'Joyce at 34'
Volume 187
The Americanization of Human Rights
Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography
Volume 290
Crossroads in American Studies
Transnational and Biocultural Encounters. Essays in Honor of Rudiger Kunow
Volume 269
Faith Matters
Religion, Ethnicity, and Survival in Louise Erdrich's and Toni Morrison's Fiction
Volume 149
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Volume 305
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