Post-nationalist American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Carlos Rowe

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 973
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Study and teaching - United States; Cultural pluralism - Study and teaching - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization Study and teaching; United States Civilization 1970- Study and teaching; United States Ethnic relations Study and teaching; United States Race relations Study and teaching
• Soggetto non controllato: 1990s; academic; america; american culture; american history; american studies; college professor; essay anthology; essay collection; globalism; historical; history professor; history teacher; migration; nationalism; nationalist; north atlantic; post nationalist; professor; race issues; race; racism; scholarly; syllabi; syllabus; teacher; united states history; united states; us history; wartime
• Altri autori: RoweJohn Carlos
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies -- Creating the Multicultural Nation -- Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies -- Foreign Affairs -- Making Comparisons -- Race, Nation, Equality -- Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848 -- My Border Stories -- How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes -- List of Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era. The goal of the book's contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than canonizes them. Articulating new ways to think about American Studies, these essays demonstrate how diverse the field has become. Contributors are concerned with cross-cultural communication, race and gender, global and local identities, and the complex tensions between symbolic and political economies. Their essays explore, among other topics, the construction of "foreign" peoples and cultures; the notion of borders-territorial, racial, economic, and sexual; the "multilingual reality" of the United States; the place of the Mexican-American War in U.S. history; and the significance of Tiger Woods in today's global market of consumption. Together, the essays propose a renewed vision of the United States' role in the world and how American Studies scholarship can address that vision. Each contributor includes a sample syllabus showing how the issues discussed in individual essays can be brought into the classroom.
• Titolo autorizzato: Post-nationalist American studies
• ISBN: 1-59734-826-0; 0-520-92526-2; 1-282-75885-3; 9786612758850
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783457203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II