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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524900403321

Titolo

The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn / / edited by Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, and Johannes Voelz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61168-406-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

Transnationalism - United States

Literature and transnationalism - United States

Culture in literature

Transnationalism in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univetät Berlin.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Imaginary and its Worlds: an Introduction / Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz -- Literary Imaginaries. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America / Ramón Saldívar -- The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary / Lawrence Buell -- Imaginaries of American Modernism / Heinz Ickstadt -- Social Imaginaries. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. Real Toads / Walter Benn Michaels -- Obama Unwound: the Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise / Christopher Newfield -- Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries / Donald E. Pease -- Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as



Transfer / Winfried Fluck.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of the American imaginary in transnational America