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- Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
- Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
summary
This volume is the outcome of a transatlantic conversation on the topic "Transnational America," in which more than sixty scholars from universities in the United States and Germany gathered to assess the historical significance of and examine the academic prospects for the "transnational turn" in American studies.
This development has brought about the most significant re-imagining of the field since its inception. The "transnational" has subsumed competing spatial and temporal orientations to the subject and has dismantled the foundational tenets and premises informing the methodology, periodization, pedagogy, and geographical locations of U.S. American studies, but transnational American studies scholars have not yet provided a coherent portrait of their field. This volume constitutes an effort to produce this needed portrait. The editors have gathered work from a host of senior and up-and-coming Americanists to compile a field-defining project that will influence both scholars and students of American studies for many years to come.
This development has brought about the most significant re-imagining of the field since its inception. The "transnational" has subsumed competing spatial and temporal orientations to the subject and has dismantled the foundational tenets and premises informing the methodology, periodization, pedagogy, and geographical locations of U.S. American studies, but transnational American studies scholars have not yet provided a coherent portrait of their field. This volume constitutes an effort to produce this needed portrait. The editors have gathered work from a host of senior and up-and-coming Americanists to compile a field-defining project that will influence both scholars and students of American studies for many years to come.
Table of Contents
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- Part I. A Politics of Transnational Melancholia
- Part II. Re-Disciplinizing Transnational American Studies
- 7. Liberty: A Transnational Icon
- pp. 193-218
- Part III. Transnational Pedagogies
- Part IV. Transnational Governmentalities
- Contributors
- p. 427
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611681918
Related ISBN(s)
9781611681895
MARC Record
OCLC
763161071
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No