A concise companion to American studies /

A concise companion to American studies /

""There is no more masterful guide to the field of American Studies than John Carlos Rowe. In this volume, he brings together some of the most articulate scholars in the field to map out the key issues defining American Studies scholarship at its most exciting and relevant. This book is an...

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Other Authors: Rowe, John Carlos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Blackwell companions in cultural studies.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American > History.
United States > Study and teaching.
United States > Civilization.
United States > Historiography.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Foundations and Backgrounds
  • 1. Puritan Origins / Philip F. Gura
  • 2. Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies, 1851-1942 / Michael A. Elliott
  • 3. The Laboring of American Culture / Michael Denning
  • 4. Is Class an American Study? / Paul Lauter
  • 5. Religious Studies / Jay Mechling
  • 6. American Languages / Joshua L. Miller
  • pt. II Ethic Studies and American Studies
  • 7. Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies / George Lipsitz
  • 8. Native American Studies / John Gamber
  • 9. The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies / Richard T. Rodriguez
  • 10. African American Studies / Jared Sexton
  • 11. Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe
  • pt. III The New American Studies
  • 12. Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance / Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • 13. Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition / Donald Pease
  • 14. Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization / John Carlos Rowe
  • 15. Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's The Foreigner and the Spanish-American War / Rebecca Walsh
  • 16. The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies / David E. Nye
  • 17. The World Wide Web and Digital Culture: New Borders, New Media, New American Studies / Matthias Oppermann
  • pt. IV Problems and Issues
  • 18. Regionalism / Kevin R. McNamara
  • 19. The West and Manifest Destiny / Deborah L. Madsen
  • 20. Canadian Studies and American Studies / Alyssa MacLean
  • 21. The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom / Henry A. Giroux
  • 22. Popular, Mass, and High Culture / Shelley Streeby.

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