American Studies is a groundbreaking anthology that charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day, showcasing dozens of essays that represent the best in cutting edge Americanist scholarship. Working with an advisory board of eminent scholars, the editors have selected works that together demonstrate how economic, social, cultural, and intellectual developments have interacted to produce new analytics and genealogies forthe field. This definitive collection emphasizes how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts and debates to emerge in different contexts. American Studies provides new historical interpretations of both America and the study of America. INDICE: I. Empire, Nation, Diaspora.1. Rethinking Race and Nation from Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy: Nikhil Pal Singh.2. Manifest Domesticity: Amy Kaplan.3. Nuestra America´s Borders: Jose David Saldivar.4. Prologue to The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism: Brent Edwards.5. Removal: Tiya Miles.6. Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to US Militarism: Yoko Fukumora and Martha Matsuoka.II. States, Citizenship, Rights.7. Introduction: LauraDoyle.8. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law: Mae Ngai.9. The Citizen and the Terrorist: Leti Volpp.10. Race, Gender, Privileges of Property: Peggy Pascoe.11. Racing Religion: Moustafa Bayoumi.12. The Intimate Public Sphere: Lauren Berlant.13. Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency: Chris Newfield.III. Reproduction of Work.14. Domestic Life in the Diggings: Susan Lee Johnson.15. Women's Sweat: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World: Jennifer Morgan.16. Fashioning Political Subjectivities: 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the Rational Girl Striker: Nan Enstad.17. The Age of the CIO: Michael Denning.18. Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics: Lisa Lowe.19. Global Cities and Circuits: Saskia Sassen.IV. Religion, Spirituality, and Alternate Ways of Being in the U.S.20. Snakes Alive: Religious Studies Between Heaven and Earth: Robert Orsi.21. From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment: Leigh Schmidt.22. Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 30s: Evelyn Higginbotham.23. The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism: Elizabeth McAlister.24. The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam: Melani McAlister.25. Getting Religion: Janet Jakobsen and Anne Pellegrini.V. Performances and Practices.26. The Origins of Mass Culture: Richard Ohmann.27. Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II: Robin Kelley.28. Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans: George Lipsitz.29. To Be Young, Brown and Hip: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Indian American Youth Culture: Sunaina Maira.30. Teatro Viva! Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles: David Roman.31. Waiting for Godzilla: Towards a Globalist Theme Park: Takayuki Tatsumi.32. Hollywoods Hot Voodoo: Eva Cherniavsky.VI. Body Talk.33. Turning People into Products: Walter Johnson.34. Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice: Saidiya V. Hartman.35. Between Oriental Depravity and Natural Degenerates: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans: Shah.36. The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA: Lennard Davis.37. The Patients Body: Virginia Blum.38. Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Mimi Nguyen.VII. Mediating Technologies.39. Two Spinning Wheels in an Old Log House: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.40. The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium: Michael Warner.41. Likeness as Identity: Reflections on the Daguerrean Mystique: Alan Trachtenberg.42. I Want to Ride in Geronimos Cadillac: Philip Deloria.43. Reading the Book of Life: DNA and the Meanings of Identity:Sarah Chinn.44.Television and the Politics of Difference: Herman S. Gray.VIII. Sites, Space, and Land.45.Where is Guantánamo: Amy Kaplan.46. Knowing Nature Through Labor: Richard White.47. Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California: Laura Pulido.48. Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces: Lizbeth Cohen.49. The Prison Fix: Ruth Gilmore.50. The Globalization of Latin America: Miami: George Yúdice.51. Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans: Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues: Clyde Woods.IX. Memory and Re-Memory.52. Not only the Footprints, but the Water, Too: Avery Gordon.53. The LostCause and Causes Not Lost: David Blight.54. The Wall and the Screen Memory: Marita Sturken.55. The Patriot Acts: Donald E. Pease.56. Silencing the Past : Power and the Production of History: Michel-Rolph Trouillot.X. Internationalization and Knowledge Production about American Studies.57. Spectres of comparison: American Studies and the United States of the West: Liam Kennedy.58. Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish: Robyn Wiegman.59. Outside Where? Comparing Notes on Comparative American Studies and American Comparative Studies: Donatella Izzo
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-1352-6
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha Publicación: 06/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés