States of emergency [[electronic resource] ] : the object of American studies / / edited by Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 973
• Soggetto geografico: United States History; United States Civilization; United States Study and teaching
• Altri autori: CastronovoRuss <1965-> GillmanSusan Kay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The study of the American problems / Russ Castronovo & Susan Gillman -- Rogue states and emergent disciplines / Srinivas Aravamudan -- Migrant archives : new routes in and out of American studies / Rodrigo Lazo -- Toxicity and the consuming subject / Nan Enstad -- Past burning : the (post-)traumatic memories of (post-)queer theory / Christopher Castiglia -- Paranoid empire : specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib / Anne McClintock -- Taking the measure of the black Atlantic / Kenneth W. Warren -- Cicero's ghost : the Atlantic, the enemy, and the laws of war / Ian Baucom -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimock -- American studies in an age of extinction / Robert S. Levine.
• Sommario/riassunto: States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies
• Titolo autorizzato: States of emergency
• ISBN: 1-4696-0456-6; 0-8078-9551-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780837203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II