04110nam 2200649Ia 450 991014061620332120221206231144.01-282-54832-897866125483211-4443-3174-41-78034-044-31-4443-1907-81-4443-1908-6(CKB)2670000000009648(EBL)487740(OCoLC)605036332(SSID)ssj0000358219(PQKBManifestationID)11238982(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358219(PQKBWorkID)10359842(PQKB)10916947(MiAaPQ)EBC487740(PPN)149732430(EXLCZ)99267000000000964820090824d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA concise companion to American studies[electronic resource] /edited by John Carlos RoweMalden, MA Wiley-Blackwell20101 online resource (476 p.)Blackwell companions in cultural studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-0924-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.A Concise Companion to American Studies; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Foundations and Backgrounds; CHAPTER ONE Puritan Origins; CHAPTER TWO Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies,1851-1942; CHAPTER THREE The Laboring of American Culture; CHAPTER FOURIs Class an American Study?; CHAPTER FIVE Religious Studies; CHAPTER SIX American Languages; PART II Ethnic Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER SEVEN Blood Lines and BloodShed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER EIGHT Native American StudiesCHAPTER NINE The Locations ofChicano/a and Latino/a Studies CHAPTER TEN African American Studies; CHAPTER ELEVEN Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique; PART Tithe New American Studies; CHAPTER TWELVE Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Culture, US Imperialism,and Globalization; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's ""The Foreigner"" and the Spanish-American War; CHAPTER Sixteenth Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American StudiesCHAPTER Seventeenth World Wide Web and Digital Culture:New Borders, New Media,New American Studies PART IV Problems and Issues; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Regionalism; CHAPTER NINETEEN The West and Manifest Destiny; CHAPTER TWENTY Canadian Studies and American Studies; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Popular, Mass, and High Culture; IndexA Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the ""new"" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the "new" American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the reBlackwell companions in cultural studiesNational characteristics, AmericanHistoryUnited StatesStudy and teachingUnited StatesCivilizationUnited StatesHistoriographyNational characteristics, AmericanHistory.306.0973973Rowe John Carlos608793MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910140616203321A concise companion to American studies2193902UNINA