Political Education and American Studies
edited by Astrid Franke, Uwe Kuchler and Katharina Luther
Paperback (Published)
(January 2025)
ISBN: 9783825396152
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $66.00
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With surges of authoritarian movements in both Europe and the United States, political education is a prominent and urgent topic. Given the long-held assumption in the United States that political education is not only, perhaps not even primarily, about theories of governance but rather about practices, habits, and a way of living together – in other words: a phenomenon of culture – the scholarship collected in this volume looks at novels and essays, caricatures and comics, zines and TV series, podcasts and LPs to examine political issues their creators wanted to educate their audience about. These include, for instance, copyright law, trade unions and economic mechanisms, anti-racism, questions of leadership, and climate change. What stands out is the relative insignificance of the nation state and perhaps democracy as useful frameworks; instead, the focus is on popular media, on contributing to building cultural memories, and frequently on pedagogy itself.
- Edited by Astrid Franke
- Edited by Uwe Kuchler
- Edited by Katharina Luther
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Betwixt, between, or beyond?
Negotiating 'Trans' formations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry
Volume 215
Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences
Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914
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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
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Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle
Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction
Volume 279
Seeing and Perceiving
Synesthetic Perception, Embodied Intersubjectivity, and Gender Masquerade in Siri Hustvedt's Works
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Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'House Made of Dawn
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Comic Art and Avant-Garde
Bill Watterson's 'Calvin and Hobbes' and the Art of American Newspaper Comic Strips
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Ausgestellte Welt
Formationsprozesse kultureller Identitat in den Texten zur Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. (1893)
Volume 91
The Kitchen and the Factory
Spaces of Women's Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
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A River of ‘Han’: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land
A Study of Korean American Literature
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