Living American Studies
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1. Auflage, 2010
413 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8253-5846-4
Sortiment: Buch
Ausgabe: Gebunden
Fachgebiet: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Reihe: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Band: 195
lieferbar: 22.02.2011
Schlagwörter:
autobiographisches Schreiben, Amerikanistik, Ecocriticism, American Studies, Transnationalität, Multikulturalität
As a discipline, American Studies has certainly been one of the most dynamic fields not only of research but also of teaching. This volume argues that one reason for this dynamism lies in the refusal of American Studies practitioners, both in the U.S. and around the globe, to separate life from art and criticism. Fields such as postmodernism, life writing, ethnic studies, or ecocriticism derive their potential precisely from the politicized interrelation of personal experience and critical practice. To acknowledge this potential, many scholars of American Studies explore the complex ways in which their own location may inform their work. It is from this tension between lived experience and the textualization of this experience that American Studies derives its greatest productivity. This volume sets out to trace some of these issues, highlighting the many ways in which American Studies scholars have been “living American Studies,” extending their fields beyond the narrow boundaries of traditional academia.
Beitr. v.: Birgit Däwes, Britta Feyerabend, Susanne Becker, Christine Marks, Katja Kurz, Mary Rose Montemayor-Hielscher, Kerstin Vogel, Manfred Siebald, Sabine Kim, Carmen Birkle, Nicole Waller, Nadja Gernalzick, Yvonne Gutenberger, Mita Banerjee, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Bärbel Höttges, Shanshan Yan
