Placing America : American culture and its spaces /

In "Call Me Ishmael", Charles Olson exclaims "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America". Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the "city upon a hill" to the transnational (soft)...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Space, Place, and Time (Conference) Graz, Austria)
Other Authors: Fuchs, Michael (Editor), Holub, Maria-Theresia (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Series:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 3.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Space > Social aspects > America > Congresses.
Popular culture > America > Congresses.
Espace > Aspect social > Amérique > Congrès.
Culture populaire > Amérique > Congrès.
Civilization.
Popular culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
United States > Civilization > 1945- > Congresses.
Canada > Civilization > 1945- > Congresses.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1945- > Congrès.
Canada > Civilisation > 1945- > Congrès.
America.
Canada.
United States.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Placing America / Holub, Maria-Theresia
  • Performing America Abroad / Lippert, Leopold
  • America, the Threat of Time / Jahr, Ida
  • Setting the Scene / Lill, Julia van
  • Fallujah Manhattan Transfer / Drennig, Georg
  • There's No Place Like Fiction / Thoss, Jeff
  • The Black Hole at the Heart of America? / Fuchs, Michael
  • Meeting at the Border / Völkl, Yvonne
  • : omanized Gauls9 / Mayer, Evelyn P.
  • Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Benea, Diana
  • Getting a Name / Prodan, Madalina
  • This Space Called Science: / Kohlenberger, Judith
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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