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American Economies
Herausgeber: Boesenberg, Eva | Isensee, Reinhard | Klepper, Martin
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 219
2012
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Abstract
American economies are hotly and controversially debated both within the United States and abroad. While most discussions focus exclusively on financial resources, this volume takes a more comprehensive approach, analysing interrelations between financial and cultural capital in different historical contexts and from a variety of perspectives. It addresses the 2008 financial crisis as well as representations of economics in literary texts and films, the usage of metaphors in economic theory, opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogues between economics and cultural studies, and the complex intersections of economics and aesthetics. Topics discussed range from piratical economies in seventeenth century literature to ecology and economics in recent movies, gentrification, and economics and health. With its readings of financial, narrative, libidinal and visual economies, the collection offers a broad spectrum of critical engagements with American economies both past and present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | V | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| I. Opening Lecture | 15 | ||
| J.K. Galbraith - The Great Crisis and the American Response | 17 | ||
| II. Economics, Culture, and Theory | 35 | ||
| J.A. Nelson - Gener, Metaphor, and American Economies | 37 | ||
| E. Boesenberg - Discourses of Value: Reading Literature through Economics and VIce Versa | 57 | ||
| W. Fluck, F. Lindner - Economics and Narrative | 83 | ||
| H. Bergthaller - An American Economy of Nature | 103 | ||
| C. Albers - Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics | 121 | ||
| III. Economics and Politics | 141 | ||
| M.Pattillo - Race, Class, and Crime in the Redevelopment of American Cities | 143 | ||
| E.C. Erbacher - Selling the American Inner City | 161 | ||
| M. Honeck - A Cheer for Free Labor Cotton | 181 | ||
| P. Wiegmink - Protesting Corporate Greed and "The Problem of Speaking for Others" | 199 | ||
| IV. Health and Political Economy | 221 | ||
| M. Priewe - Healing Trades: Gender and the Medical Marketplace in Puritan America | 223 | ||
| K. Schmieder - Weird Economies: Fictionalizing Reproduction, Medicalization, and Gender | 243 | ||
| S. Huettner - "No country for the infirm": Capitalism, AIDS, and American Drama | 261 | ||
| Chr. Lammert - Obama's Health Care Reform: Mission Accomplished? | 281 | ||
| V. Economies of Literature | 301 | ||
| A. Ganser - Specters of Slavery, Phantoms of Luxury | 303 | ||
| J. Voelz - The Market of Inspiration: Emerson on the Lyceum Stage | 327 | ||
| K. Kanzler - "Pay Day": Discourses of Money in Literature by Antebellum "Factory Girls" | 349 | ||
| M. Snyder-Körber - Gift Money: Nightwood and the Funding/Form Logics of Late Modernism | 365 | ||
| D. Löbbermann - Pornotopic Economies: Samuel R. Delany's "The Mad Man" | 389 | ||
| L. Bieger - "Look what they done" - Proberty, Community and Belonging in Edward P. Jones's "The Known World" | 403 | ||
| S. Schneider - The Cost of Living in a Utopian Community: M. Night Shyamalans "The Village" | 433 | ||
| List of Contributors | 451 |
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