Futures of American Studies

Name: Futures of American Studies
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ISBN: 9780822329657

ISBN-10: 0822329654

ISBN-13: 9780822329657

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robyn Wiegman, Donald E. Pease, Lindon Barrett, Gillian Brown, Winfried Fluck

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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 & launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. This collection considers the field today & what it may become.

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 632
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Branka Arsi is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments


Futures



Posthegemonic


What's in a Name?



The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique



The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia



Manifest Domesticity



C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies



Comparativist


Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies



Salesman in Moscow



The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism



Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction



Color Blindness and Acting Out



Differential


Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity



Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The Hammer Man"



Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of "Our" New America(s)



Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel



Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children



American Studies in the "Age of the World Picture": Thinking the Question of Language



Counterhegemonic


Work and Culture in American Studies



"Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today": American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements



Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s)



American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class



The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies



Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen



Afterword


ConsterNation



Bibliography


Contributors


Index