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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Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
The Search for a Democratic Aesthetics
Robert Rauschenberg, Walker Evans, William Carlos Williams
Volume 214
Die Tragodie und Komodie des amerikanischen Lebens
Eine Studie zu Zuckermans Amerika in Philip Roths Amerika-Trilogie
Volume 137
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
An Axial Analysis
Volume 312
With a Barbarous Din
Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Volume 266
The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo
Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation
Volume 189
Native North American Theater in a Global Age
Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference
Volume 147
Poetics of Politics
Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Volume 258
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