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The Futures of American Studies: New Americanists

Autor Robyn Wiegman, Donald E. Pease
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2002
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. "The Futures of American Studies" considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist and antinationalist discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, "The Futures of American Studies" is necessary reading for American Studies scholars. "Contributors." Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Gunter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, Jose Estaban Munoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos"
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822329657
ISBN-10: 0822329654
Pagini: 632
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Americanists


Cuprins

Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman, “Futures”Post-HegemonicJan Radway, “What’s In a Name?” (reprinted from American Quarterly)Lisa Lowe, “The International Within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique” (reprinted from Cultural Critique)José Esteban Muñoz, “The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia”Amy Kaplan, “Manifest Domesticity” (reprinted from American Literature)Donald Pease, “C.L.R. James, Moby Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies”ComparativistJohn Carlos Rowe, “Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies” (reprinted from Cultural Critique)Dana Heller, “Salesman in Moscow”Winifred Fluck, “The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism” (reprinted from Cultural Critique)Walter Benn Michaels, “Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction” (reprinted from Transition)Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, “Color-Blindness and Acting OutDifferentialRobyn Wiegman, “Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity” (reprinted from Boundary 2 )Lindon Barrett, “Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” (reprinted from Cultural Critique)Ricardo L. Ortíz, “Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Québec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s)”Nancy Bentley, “Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel”Gillian Brown, “Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children”William V.Spanos, “American Studies in the “Age of World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language”Counter HegemonicMichael Denning, “Work and Culture in American Studies”George Lipsitz, “Sent For You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements” (reprinted from Cultural CritiqueGünter H.Lenz, “Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s)”Paul Lauter, “American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class”Eric Cheyfitz, “The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies”Russ Castronovo, “Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen”Dana D. Nelson, “ConsterNation”Afterword; Bibliography; Contributors

Recenzii

“[R]eally important essays on ideas and methods in American studies. . . . In short, The Futures of American Studies offers the teacher of an introductory graduate seminar a convenient anthology.”—Bernard, Mergen, American Studies International“[T]he authors have interesting points of view and cast light on their subjects.”—Ray B. Browne, The Journal of American Culture“[A] valuable collection.”—Miles Orvell, American StudiesNegative reviews in The New Republic led to much activity on H-Amstdy listserv. The Boston Globe and Tikkun reported on the controversy. Listed in Cultural Critique, CHE, Women’s Studies, boundary 2, College Literature, Critical Inquiry, and Journal of the History of Ideas. Also reviewed in Journal of American Studies, Journal of American History, and Journal of Latin American Studies

Notă biografică

Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.

Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both published by Duke University Press.


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"Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which 'New Americanist' scholarship is heading."--Lawrence Buell, author of "Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond"

Descriere

A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the future