Developing Transnational American Studies
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9783825378479
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nadja Gernalzick
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783825369507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransnational American Studies have been developed by international and internationally minded scholars to address the need for border-crossing awareness, knowledge and consciousness of difference. In a decisive change from the comparativist pattern of investigation between two or more assumed units, the transnational approach intends a further opening of cultural systems. With their transnational turn, the focus of American Studies has become relocated to increasingly international and global concerns of knowledge production and cultural transfer as well as to multi- and transnational discourses.0This volume combines Transnational American Studies from diverse angles in the four general areas?Repositioning the American South?,?Life, Literature, Ecocriticism?,?Life Writing and Medicine? and?Critical Studies of the Nation?. Written by scholars disciplinarily and institutionally linked to American Studies departments mainly, the themes are, however, not restricted to American Studies as a nationally bound field, but extend and pertain to transnational and global discourses and their conceptual composition and processing.
Author: Winfried Fluck
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1611681901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?
Author: Winfried Fluck
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1611681898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?
Author: Eileen T. Lundy
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1477309306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPracticing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between the United States and the region. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, American studies programs began to spread in the Middle East. During a time of rising anti-American sentiment, ten major programs were established in the region. What impulses propelled universities in the Middle East to establish these centers and programs? What motivated students to take courses and pursue degrees in American studies? In part, American studies programs developed as a way to “know the enemy,” to better understand America’s ubiquitous influence in foreign relations, technology, and culture; however, some programs grew because residents admired the ideals set forth as American, including democracy and free speech. Practicing Transnationalism investigates these issues and others, using the experiences and research of the editors and contributors, who worked either directly in these programs or as adjunct to them. These scholars seek to understand what American power means to people in the Middle East. They examine the challenge of developing American studies programs in a transnational paradigm, striving to build programs that are separate from and critical of American imperialism without simply becoming anti-American. In the essays, the contributors provide context for how the field of American studies has grown and developed, and they offer views of cultural interactions and classroom situations, demonstrating the problems instructors faced and how they worked to address them.
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-09-09
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1474458890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide.
Author: Nina Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-05
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1351672622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.
Author: Peggy Levitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520926706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to popular opinion, increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the United States. The Transnational Villagers offers a detailed, compelling account of how ordinary people keep their feet in two worlds and create communities that span borders. Peggy Levitt explores the powerful familial, religious, and political connections that arise between Miraflores, a town in the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston and examines the ways in which these ties transform life in both the home and host country. The Transnational Villagers is one of only a few books based on in-depth fieldwork in the countries of origin and reception. It provides a moving, detailed account of how transnational migration transforms family and work life, challenges migrants' ideas about race and gender, and alters life for those who stay behind as much, if not more, than for those who migrate. It calls into question conventional thinking about immigration by showing that assimilation and transnational lifestyles are not incompatible. In fact, in this era of increasing economic and political globalization, living transnationally may become the rule rather than the exception.
Author: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1351681826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).
Author: Laura Bieger
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1611684072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univet'at Berlin.