Overview

The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and strengthened national borders alongside multiple challenges to national sovereignty.

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Author:   Marietta Messmer ,  Armin Paul Frank ,  Armin Paul Frank
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9783631647998

ISBN 10:   3631647999
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   21 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Marietta Messmer: Transcending Borders: The International Turn in American Studies – Michael Boyden: The Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies Through the Lens of Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory – Ricardo D. Salvatore: If Bolton Were to Awake Today: Early Efforts Towards a Comprehensive Hemispheric History of the Americas – Jane C. Desmond: «And Never the Twain Shall Meet?»: Considering the Legacies of Orientalism and Occidentalism for the Transnational Study of the U.S. – Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Literary Studies in the Early Twenty-First Century: The View from the United States – Josef Raab: Difference Matters: Toward an Inter-American Approach to «Race», Ethnicity, and Belonging – Amós Nascimento: Inter-(African-Latin-)American: An Experiment in «Inter-Location» – Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: Transnationality and Temporality in Early African American Texts – Armin Paul Frank: A Rationale for a Comprehensive Study of the History of United States Literary Culture – Daniel Göske: The Literary World in the «American Renaissance» and the International Context of American Studies – Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Studies as an Emerging Field: The Future of a Discipline – Claudia Sadowski-Smith/Claire F. Fox: Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies – Liam Kennedy: American Studies Without Tears, or What Does America Want?

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Marietta Messmer is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She works on inter-American cultural and political relations with a special focus on migration studies. Armin Paul Frank is Professor Emeritus of English Philology at Göttingen University (Germany) and founding director of the Göttingen Center of Advanced Studies in Literary Translation.

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