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
AlterNative Spaces
Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations' Literatures
Volume 146
With a Barbarous Din
Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Volume 266
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
Poetics of Politics
Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Volume 258
Undoing Difference?
Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson
Volume 224
Weird American Music
Case Studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music
Volume 299
Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation
Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empire
Volume 267
Voices of the Down and Out
The Dust Bowl Migration and the Great Depression in the Songs of Woody Guthrie
Volume 153
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