The futures of American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman

• Pubblicazione: Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (631 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.071
• Soggetto topico: EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
• Soggetto geografico: United States Study and teaching; United States Study and teaching Forecasting; United States Social conditions 1980-2020
• Classificazione: HR 1080
• Altri autori: PeaseDonald E WiegmanRobyn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-608) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman -- What's in a name? / Jan Radway -- The international within the national : American studies and Asian American critique / Lisa Lowe -- The future in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of Utopia / José Esteban Muñoz -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the emergence of transnational American studies / Donald E. Pease -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American studies / John Carols Rowe -- Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller -- The humanities in the age of expressive individualism and cultural radicalism / Winfried Fluck -- Autobiographies of the ex-white men : why race is not a social construction / Walter Benn Michaels -- Color blindness and acting out / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones -- Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity / Robyn Wiegman -- Identities and identity studies : reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The Hammer Man" / Lindon Barrett -- Hemisphere vertigo : Cuba, Quebec, and other provisional reconfigurations of "our" new America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- Marriage as treason : polygamy, nation and the novel / Nancy Bentley -- Litigious therapeutics : recovering the rights of children / Gillian Brown -- American studies in the "Age of the world picture" : thinking the question of language / William V. Spanos -- Work and culture in American studies / Michael Denning -- "Sent for you yesterday, here you come today" : American studies scholarship and the new social movements / George Lipsitz -- Toward a dialogics of international American culture studies : transnationality, border discourses, and public culture(s) / Günter H. Lenz -- American studies, American politics, and the reinvention of class / Paul Lauter -- The end of academia : the future of American studies / Eric Cheyfitz -- Nation dot com : American studies and the production of the corporatist citizen / Russ Castronovo -- ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson.
• Sommario/riassunto: A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f
• Titolo autorizzato: The futures of American studies
• ISBN: 1-282-92044-8; 9786612920448; 0-8223-8419-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777990703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Americanists.