The Transnationalism of American Culture (eBook, PDF)

Literature, Film, and Music
Redaktion: Davis, Rocío

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural productions, examining how they serve as ways of perceiving American culture. Visiting literature, film, and music, it considers how manifestations of American culture have traveled and what has happened to the texts in the process, including how they have been commodified.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136172625
• Artikelnr.: 38266683

Autorenporträt

Rocío G. Davis is Professor of English at the City University of Hong Kong, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perspectives on Transnational American Cultures Rocío G.
Davis 1. Mapping American Studies in the 21st Century: Transnational
Perspectives Shelley Fisher Fishkin Part 1: Broadening the Frame 2.
Transnational Spaces and Black American Identities in Caryl Phillips's
Dancing in the Dark Jopi Nyman 3. Remembering What to Forget: Memory as
Transnational Practice in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy Silvia Schultermandl 4.
Transnational and Transcultural Exchanges in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita
in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Pin-chia Feng Part 2: The Cross-Fertilization
of Culture 5. "I used to like gangsters and newspaper films, but I'm not so
sure now:" The Hollywood Dreams of Jessie Matthews and the British Film
Industry James Stone 6. Post-Communist American Dreams in Romanian Music
Ioana Luca 7. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan Revisited: Musical "Authenticity"
and Transnational Adaptations of Country and Folk Music Monika Mueller
Part 3: Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Canonical Writing 8. "I just
want to go home:" Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama and Disturbed American
Transnationalism Alison Lutton 9. "Vagabond Internationalism:" The
Transnational Life and Literature of Claude McKay Bairbre Walsh 10.
Multiculturalism with Transnationalism: Food Scenes as Contact Zones Samir
Dayal Part 4: Narratives of Travel and Migration 11. Intersecting Atlantic
Trajectories in Junot Diaz's and Edwidge Danticat's Stories Ana Mª Manzanas
12. Spheres of Influence in Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation: the Classroom,
the Blog, and the Ethnic Story Monica Chiu 13. Hospitality across the
Atlantic: American Guests and the International Space of Flows in
Spielberg's The Terminal and Frears's Dirty Pretty Things Jesús Benito