Approaches to American Cultural Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dallmann, Antje; Klepper, Martin; Boesenberg, Eva

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.

This book is supplemented by a companion website offering further material for study (www.routledge.com/cw/dallmann). Specifically designed for use on courses across Europe, it is a clear and engaging introductory text for students of American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317227748
• Artikelnr.: 45100022

Autorenporträt

Antje Dallmann teaches North American literature and culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and at Leipzig University in Germany. She is the author of ConspiraCity New York (2009) and co-editor of Envisioning American Utopias (2011), Picturing America (2009, both with Reinhard Isensee and Philipp Kneis) and Toward a New Metropolitanism (2006, with Günter H. Lenz and Friedrich Ulfers). Eva Boesenberg is the author of Money and Gender in the American Novel, 1850-2000 (2010) and Gender - Voice - Vernacular: The Formation of Female Subjectivity in Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (1999), and co-editor of American Economies (2012, with Martin Klepper and Reinhard Isensee). She teaches North American literature and culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She Martin Klepper teaches North American literature and culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of Pynchon, Auster, DeLillo: Die amerikanische Postmoderne zwischen Spiel und Rekonstruktion (1996) and his latest books include The Discovery of Point of View: Observation and Narration in the American Novel 1790-1910 (2011) and Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective (2013, co-edited with Claudia Holler).

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors. Introduction Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, and
Martin Klepper Part 1: American Studies as a Discipline 1. History of
American Studies Matthias Oppermann 2. The Learning and Teaching American
Studies Uwe Küchler Part 2: American Studies and Cultural Studies 3.
Kulturwissenschaft, British Cultural Studies, American Cultural Studies
Christina Wald 4. Visual Culture, Popular Culture Christina Meyer 5.
American Studies and/as Cultural Studies Martin Klepper Part 3: Concepts of
Nation-Building in American Studies 6. The Myth of the American West,
"Manifest Destiny," and the Frontier Michael J. Prince 7. The City and the
Country Dorothea Löbbermann 8. Religion and the American Difference Jan
Stievermann 9. Politics and Political Institutions Marcel Hartwig 10. The
Myth of the American Family Antje Dallmann 11. "From Rags to Riches" and
the Self-Made Man Martin Klepper Part 4: Theories in American Studies 12.
Post-Marxism, American Studies, and Post-Capitalist Futures Jodi Melamed
13. Structuralism/Deconstruction Simon Strick 14. Psychoanalysis and Beyond
Katja Schmieder 15. Social Theories in Cultural Studies Georgina Banita
16. Justice, Ethics, Violence Zusanna Ladyga 17. Feminist Criticism
Justine Tally 18. Gender Studies Eva Boesenberg 19. Queer and Transgender
Studies Bart Eeckhout 20. Age Studies Philipp Kneis and Antje Dallmann 21.
Postcolonialism and American Studies Mita Banerjee 22. Critical Race Theory
and Critical Whiteness Studies Eva Boesenberg 23. Border Studies and
Hemispheric Studies Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez. Index.