Transnational American memories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Udo J. Hebel
| Transnational American memories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Udo J. Hebel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HebelUdo J |
| Collana | Media and cultural memory =Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
History in literature Collective memory in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and history - United States - History Collective memory and literature - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-34542-7
9786612345425 3-11-022421-6 |
| Classificazione | HR 1704 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth -- Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier -- Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez's Disease Narrative -- Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters -- Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk -- Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty's Autobiographical Writing -- Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo -- Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I -- "Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France": Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers -- Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory -- Remembering the 'Forgotten War' and Containing the 'Remembered War:' Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War -- Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero -- (Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago's World's Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory -- Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. -- Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley -- "A Lens into What It Means to Be an American": African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory -- Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century -- Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Commentary Epilogue -- Back matter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455287003321 |
| New York ; ; Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transnational American memories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Udo J. Hebel
| Transnational American memories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Udo J. Hebel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HebelUdo J |
| Collana | Media and cultural memory =Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
History in literature Collective memory in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and history - United States - History Collective memory and literature - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American Memories
Commemorative Identity Construction Cultural Memory Politics of Remembrance |
| ISBN |
1-282-34542-7
9786612345425 3-11-022421-6 |
| Classificazione | HR 1704 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth -- Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier -- Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez's Disease Narrative -- Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters -- Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk -- Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty's Autobiographical Writing -- Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo -- Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I -- "Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France": Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers -- Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory -- Remembering the 'Forgotten War' and Containing the 'Remembered War:' Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War -- Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero -- (Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago's World's Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory -- Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. -- Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley -- "A Lens into What It Means to Be an American": African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory -- Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century -- Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Commentary Epilogue -- Back matter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778470403321 |
| New York ; ; Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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