Wiegman / Pease The Futures of American Studies

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8419-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 632 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiegman, Robyn

Pease, Donald E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Radway, Janice

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1

Posthegemonic

What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45

The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76

The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93

Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111

C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135

Comparativist

Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167

Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183

The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211

Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231

Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248

Differential

Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269

Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305

Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327

Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341

Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371

American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387

Counterhegemonic

Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419

“Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441

Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461

American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486

The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510

Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536

Afterword

ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559

Bibliography 581

Contributors 609

Index 613

Über Autor(innen)

Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both published by Duke University Press.