American Counter/Publics
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1. Edition, 2019
415 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-4661-4
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 304
Available: 19.12.2019
Keywords:
Öffentlichkeit, öffentlicher Raum, öffentlicher Diskurs, Massenmedien, Aktivismus, Social Media, amerikanische Gesellschaft, U.S.A., Baker, Josephine, Counterpublics, Wells, Ida B., Protestbewegungen, Medienwissenschaft, Lewis, Henry Clay, Satire, Black Movement, DuVernay, Ava, Sexualität, gender studies, Dickinson, Emily, Inhaftierung, Geisteswissenschaften, Humanities
The “public sphere”—an idea with deep roots in the European enlightenment—has always been a contested concept in American culture and society. American intellectuals, artists, politicians, and activists have stressed the non-unitary, diversified, and oppositional dynamics of all things public. From the early days of the American republic, competing interest groups and commercial mass media (first newspapers, novels, and the theater, then radio, television, and the internet) have worked to pluralize public speech and public action—and ultimately the notion of “publicness” itself.
This essay collection explores the public sphere in North America as a multi-agential, commercially embattled, highly mediated, and ultimately trans-nationalized aggregate of publics and counterpublics. The contributors present innovative theoretical and historical assessments of American counter/publics across an array of fields including social activism, political communication, literary discourse, and contemporary mass media.
Contrib. by: Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege, Sarah E. Igo, Laura Bieger, Kay M. Losey, Catherine R. Squires, Carmen Dexl, Hannah Spahn, Anne Nassauer, Andrew Gross, Ferdinand Nyberg, Antje Dallmann, Mischa Honeck, Jayne Thompson, Kristina Graaff, Lee A. Flamand, Martin Lüthe, Katherine Lacson, Michael Connors-Jackman, Viola Huang, Elisabeth Bronfen, Maria Sulimma, Stephan Kuhl, Christina Meyer, Philipp Löffler, Antje Kley
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