The international turn in American studies

The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Messmer, Marietta (Editor), Messmer, Marietta, editor (editor), Frank, Armin Paul, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2015
Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : 2015.
Edición:0 ed
Colección:Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang) ; Volume 7.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: transcending borders: the international turn in American studies / Marietta Messmer
  • The semantics of self-denial: the new American studies through the lens of Luhmann's social systems theory / Michael Boyden
  • If Bolton were to awake today: early efforts towards a comprehensive hemispheric history of the Americas / Ricardo D. Salvatore
  • "And never the twain shall meet?": considering the legacies of orientalism and occidentalism for the transnational study of the U.S. / Jane C. Desmond
  • Inter-American literary studies in the early twenty-first century: the view from the United States / Earl E. Fitz
  • Difference matters: toward an inter-American approach to 'race', ethnicity, and belonging / Josef Raab
  • Inter-(African-Latin) American: an experiment in "inter-location" / Amós Nascimento
  • Transnationality and temporality in early African American texts / Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
  • A rationale for a comprehensive study of the history of United States literary culture / Armin Paul Frank
  • The literary world in the "American renaissance" and the international context of American studies / Daniel Göske
  • Inter-American studies as an emerging field: the future of a discipline / Earl E. Fitz
  • Theorizing the hemisphere: inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies / Claudia Sadowski-Smith & Claire F. Fox
  • American studies without tears, or what does America want? / Liam Kennedy.