Critical Regionalism
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Mitarbeit v. (als Hg.):
Jasmin Falk
1. Auflage, 2016
216 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6679-7
Sortiment: Buch
Ausgabe: Gebunden
Fachgebiet: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Reihe: Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Band: 18
lieferbar: 11.10.2016
Schlagwörter:
Populärkultur, Photographie, U.S.A., Reality TV, Cather, Willa, Frauenbewegung, Truppenübungsplatz Grafenwöhr, Chicano/a-Literatur, Ruinenästhetik, Grenzräume, Border Studies, Regionalkultur, Großregionen
This volume presents analyses of cultural practices and literary/visual representations in the larger field of American Studies that apply a critical regionalist approach. Loosely defined as a set of anti-foundational perspectives in the wake of the spatial turn, critical regionalism seeks to investigate apparent regional specificities against the backdrop of local/global trajectories. Taking their cue from urban studies, the essays in this volume inquire about the region as a category of difference (alongside race, gender, class) and as a possibly subversive point of view from which to critique hegemonic spatial (and capitalist) formations.
Topics include an ecocritical analysis of the commodification of bees in the United States (Cheryl Herr), a discussion of multifarious border cultures in the Southwest (Silvia Spitta), an exploration of the role of the regional and the global in the modern women’s movement (Katharina Gerund), a critique of region and class with regard to “rednexploitation” in television culture (Tanja Aho) as well as a critical regionalist account of ruin photography in the United States (Miles Orvell), to name but a few contributions to this volume. All of them seek to re-appraise questions of region(alism) focusing on patterns of affiliation, economic structures, political protest, and/or aesthetic practices.
Beitr. v.: Klaus Lösch, Heike Paul, Cheryl Temple Herr, Miles Orvell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Silvia Spitta, Carmen Brosig, Birgit M. Bauridl, Katharina Gerund, Amy Doherty Mohr, Rachael Price, Tanja N. Aho
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Kirsten Sandrock in: Amerikastudien / American Studies, 63.2 (2018)
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Elżbieta Horodyska in: Polish Journal for American Studies, 12 (Spring 2018), 257ff
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