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Globalizing American studies /

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Edwards, Brian T., 1968-, Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • American studies after American exceptionalism? : toward a comparative analysis of imperial state exceptionalisms / Donald E. Pease
  • Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota
  • Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards
  • Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin
  • Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin
  • Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. Thompson
  • Chronotopes of a dystopic nation: cultures of dependency and border crossings in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz
  • Transpacific complicity and comparatist strategy: failure in decolonization and the rise of Japanese nationalism / Naoki Sakai
  • War in several tongues: nations, languages, genres / Wai Chee Dimock
  • Neo-orientalism / Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams
  • American studies in motion: Tehran, Hyderabad, Cairo / Brian T. Edwards.