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Record Nr.

UNINA9910418279303321

Titolo

The international turn in American studies / / Marietta Messmer, Armin Paul Frank, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : Peter Lang GmbH, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-653-03657-7

Edizione

[0 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Interamericana, , 1618-419X ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

973.071

Soggetti

United States Civilization 1945-65

United States Civilization Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.