Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

After American Studies

Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms-including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media-the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in American History
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887100
• ISBN-10: 036788710X
• Artikelnr.: 58482114

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Critique of Transnational Approaches to Community

1. The Ontology of Cultural Groups in Modernity

2. Place-Making

3. Literature as a Device of Cultural Appropriation

4. A Coda to Literary Canons

5. Art and Power

6. Forced Acculturation

7. Transmedia Storytelling

8. Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies

9. Imagining New Communities