Developing Transnational American Studies
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1. Auflage, 2019
188 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6950-7
Sortiment: Buch
Ausgabe: Gebunden
Fachgebiet: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Reihe: Intercultural Studies. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Interkulturelle Studien (ZIS), Band: 8
lieferbar: 07.02.2019
Schlagwörter:
autobiographisches Schreiben, Nationale Identität, Transnationalismus, Amerikanistik, life writing, Thoreau, Henry David, Alzheimer, Ecocriticism, American Studies, transnational studies, Obama, Barack, Literatur und Medizin, Posthumanismus, amerikanischer Süden, amerikanische Südstaaten, Lee, Spike, Überwachungsstaat, Rigg, R. Lynn, Twain, Marc, Du Pre Lumpkin, Katharine, Tao Qian, Rodgers und Hammerstein
Transnational American Studies have been developed by international and internationally minded scholars to address the need for border-crossing awareness, knowledge and consciousness of difference. In a decisive change from the comparativist pattern of investigation between two or more assumed units, the transnational approach intends a further opening of cultural systems. With their transnational turn, the focus of American Studies has become relocated to increasingly international and global concerns of knowledge production and cultural transfer as well as to multi- and transnational discourses.
This volume combines Transnational American Studies from diverse angles in the four general areas “Repositioning the American South”, “Life, Literature, Ecocriticism”, “Life Writing and Medicine” and “Critical Studies of the Nation”. Written by scholars disciplinarily and institutionally linked to American Studies departments mainly, the themes are, however, not restricted to American Studies as a nationally bound field, but extend and pertain to transnational and global discourses and their conceptual composition and processing.
