Living American Studies
Edited by Manfred Siebald Edited by Barbel Hottges Edited by Carmen Birkle Edited by Mita Banerjee Edited by Nicole Waller
Hardback (Published)
(January 2011)
ISBN: 9783825358464
5.31 x 8.31 inches
Price: $57.00
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As a discipline, American Studies has certainly been one of the most dynamic fields not only of research but also of teaching. This volume argues that one reason for this dynamism lies in the refusal of American Studies practitioners, both in the U.S. and around the globe, to separate life from art and criticism. Fields such as postmodernism, life writing, ethnic studies, or ecocriticism derive their potential precisely from the politicized interrelation of personal experience and critical practice. To acknowledge this potential, many scholars of American Studies explore the complex ways in which their own location may inform their work. It is from this tension between lived experience and the textualization of this experience that American Studies derives its greatest productivity. This volume sets out to trace some of these issues, highlighting the many ways in which American Studies scholars have been “living American Studies,” extending their fields beyond the narrow boundaries of traditional academia.
- Edited by Manfred Siebald
- Edited by Barbel Hottges
- Edited by Carmen Birkle
- Edited by Mita Banerjee
- Edited by Nicole Waller
Other Titles in this Series
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Volume 305
Undoing Difference?
Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson
Volume 224
There is More than One Site of Resistance
Ironie und Parodie im zeitgenossischen Roman der Chicanos/as
Volume 98
Deliberately Out of Bounds
Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Volume 282
With a Barbarous Din
Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Volume 266
Voices of the Down and Out
The Dust Bowl Migration and the Great Depression in the Songs of Woody Guthrie
Volume 153
AlterNative Spaces
Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations' Literatures
Volume 146
Performing America Abroad
Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism
Volume 297
Medical Humanities in American Studies
Life Writing, Narrative Medicine, and the Power of Autobiography
Volume 292
Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences
Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914
Volume 126
Perspectives on Values
The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
Volume 323
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