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Titolo: |
A concise companion to American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Carlos Rowe
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (476 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.0973 |
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Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, American - History |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Study and teaching |
United States Civilization | |
United States Historiography | |
Altri autori: |
RoweJohn Carlos
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Studies |
CHAPTER 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 Studies | |
CHAPTER 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; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | A 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 re |
Titolo autorizzato: | A concise companion to American studies ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-54832-8 |
9786612548321 | |
1-4443-3174-4 | |
1-78034-044-3 | |
1-4443-1907-8 | |
1-4443-1908-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910140616203321 |
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