A Critical History Of The New American Studies 1970 1990
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A Critical History of the New American Studies 1970 1990
Author | : Günter H. Lenz |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781512600049 |
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Starting in 2005, Gunter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on, contributor to, and participant in the intellectual and institutional changes in his field, Lenz was well situated to offer a comprehensive and balanced interpretation of that seminal era. Building on essays he wrote while these changes were ongoing, he shows how the revolution in theory, the emergence of postmodern socioeconomic conditions, the increasing globalization of everyday life, and postcolonial responses to continuing and new forms of colonial domination had transformed American Studies as a discipline focused on the distinctive qualities of the United States to a field encompassing the many different "Americas" in the Western Hemisphere as well as how this complex region influenced and was interpreted by the rest of the world. In tracking the shift of American Studies from its exceptionalist bias to its unmanageable global responsibilities, Lenz shows the crucial roles played by the 1930s' Left in the U.S., the Frankfurt School in Germany and elsewhere between 1930 and 1960, Continental post-structuralism, neo-Marxism, and post-colonialism. Lenz's friends and colleagues, now his editors, present here his final backward glance at a critical period in American Studies and the birth of the Transnational.
The City in American Literature and Culture
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108841962 |
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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
Author | : Joanne Chassot |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512601619 |
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The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers - Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.
Native Land Talk
Author | : Yael Ben-zvi |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512601473 |
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Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As settlers began to distrust the entitlements that the English used to justify their rule, the colonized and the enslaved formulated coherent logics of freedom and belonging. By anchoring rights in nativity, they countered settlers' attempts to dispossess and disenfranchise them. Drawing on a plethora of texts, including petitions, letters, newspapers, and official records, Yael Ben-zvi analyzes nativity's unsettling potentials and its discursive and geopolitical implications. She shows how rights were constructed in relation to American, African, and English spaces, and explains the obstacles to historic solidarity between Native American and African American struggles.
Invisible Masters
Author | : Elisabeth Ceppi |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781512602975 |
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Invisible Masters rewrites the familiar narrative of the relation between Puritan religious culture and New England's economic culture as a history of the primary discourse that connected them: service. The understanding early Puritans had of themselves as God's servants and earthly masters was shaped by their immersion in an Atlantic culture of service and the worldly pressures and opportunities generated by New England's particular place in it. Concepts of spiritual service and mastery determined Puritan views of the men, women, and children who were servants and slaves in that world. So, too, did these concepts shape the experience of family, labor, law, and economy for those men, women, and children - the very bedrock of their lives. This strikingly original look at Puritan culture will appeal to a wide range of Americanists and historians.
Enemies of All Humankind
Author | : Sonja Schillings |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512600179 |
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Hostis humani generis, meaning "enemy of humankind," is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons as enemies of all humankind does more than characterize them as inherently hostile: it supplies a narrative basis for legitimating violence in the name of the state. The book draws attention to a century-old narrative pattern that not only underlies the legal category of enemies of the people, but more generally informs interpretations of imperial expansion, protest against structural oppression, and the transformation of institutions as "legitimate" interventions on behalf of civilized society. Schillings traces the Anglo-American interpretive history of the concept, which she sees as crucial to understanding US history, in particular with regard to the frontier, race relations, and the war on terror.
In the Name of the Mother
Author | : Samuele F. S. Pardini |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512600209 |
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In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in the West. This previously unexamined encounter offers a hybrid, transnational model of modernity capable of producing democratic forms of aesthetics, social consciousness, and political economy. This volume emphasizes the racial "in-betweenness" of Italian Americans rearticulated as "invisible blackness," a view that enlarges and complicates the color-based dimensions of American racial discourse. This strikingly original work will interest a wide spectrum of scholars in American Studies and the humanities.
Color Hair and Bone
Author | : Linden Lewis,Glyne A. Griffith,Elizabeth Crespo Kebler |
Publsiher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0838756689 |
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These essays explore various critical dimensions of race from a sociological, anthropological, and literary perspective. They engage with history, either textually, materially, or with respect to identity, in an effort to demonstrate that these discourses