Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts
Transatlantic American Studies
edited by Reinhard Isensee and Wilfried Raussert
Hardback (Published)
(January 2008)
ISBN: 9783825355609
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $62.00
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As the editors hope, this volume, that is primarily the outcome of an international conference in honor of Gunter H. Lenz at the Humboldt University Berlin in February 2005, will provide some answers to Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s question “What would the field of American Studies look like if the transnational rather than the national were at its center?” The editors also express the hope that it will represent another major step in challenging the methodological nationalism of American Studies. The contributions engage with literary, political and cultural practices in America, past and present, set out to transcend long established paradigms of an American “exceptionalism” or critical approaches that hold on to the notion of a core Americanness as a single nationalist mythology of the United States. “America” then functions as a signifier that is configured in and by its presence outside and beyond the national borders of the United States of America. The overall thrust of our volume draws upon concepts of the “New American Studies,” especially “Post-Nationalist American Studies.” The re-definition and re-positioning of American Studies point towards significant shifts in research approaches, away from nation-state based myths as well as spatial configurations and signal a dynamically transnational and intercultural conceptualization of U.S. culture. Such turn in American Studies interprets “America” as a multiplicity of interpellations for which no single position has precedence and all interact in “a genuinely dialogic notion of cultural critique and of inter- and postnational American culture studies in order to bring into view the always two-directional processes of transculturation” as well as constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of competing visions, and ideologies inside and outside the terrain of the United States (Lenz).
- Edited by Reinhard Isensee
- Edited by Wilfried Raussert
Other Titles in this Series
Deliberately Out of Bounds
Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Volume 282
Transnational Mediations
Negotiating Popular Culture between Europe and the United States
Volume 261
John F. Kennedy and the ‘Thousand Days’
New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration
Volume 144
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
Entgrenzung der Geschichte
Eine Untersuchung zum historischen Denken der amerikanischen Postmoderne
Volume 122
Schauspiele des Sehens
Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im U.S.-amerikanischen Essay
Volume 239
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