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American Studies Today
New Research Agendas
Herausgeber: Fluck, Winfried | Redling, Erik | Sielke, Sabine | Zapf, Hubert
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 230
2014
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Abstract
The volume explores the state of contemporary American Studies in the light of recent developments and currently emerging perspectives of research. Featuring contributions by leading American Studies scholars from the German-speaking world, the collection of essays represents a broad spectrum of thematic, theoretical and methodological approaches that constitute major research agendas within current American Studies. It also includes contributions by renowned colleagues from the U.S. which provide a transatlantic framework of scholarly debate. In line with the original, dialogic Conference format, the volume is organized around central topics covered by main papers and shorter response papers. While the essays position American Studies in Germany in its transnational contexts, they also highlight its distinct contribution to the global field of American Studies in the early 21st century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
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Contents | v | ||
THE EDITORS, Preface | ix | ||
1 Transatlantic Histories | 1 | ||
SIMON WENDT, Transnationalizing American and TransatlanticHistory: Chances and Challenges | 3 | ||
HANS-JÜRGEN GRABBE, Response to Simon Wendt, The Pros and Cons of Transnational American Studies from an Historian’s Perspective | 25 | ||
2 Poverty and Class | 35 | ||
SIEGLINDE LEMKE, Poverty and Class Studies | 37 | ||
EVA BOESENBERG, Response to Sieglinde Lemke, What’s Class Got to Do with Us? | 65 | ||
3 Relational Sociology | 73 | ||
CHRISTA BUSCHENDORF AND ASTRID FRANKE, The Implied Sociology and Politics of LiteraryTexts: Using the Tools of Relational Sociology inAmerican Studies | 75 | ||
GÜNTER LEYPOLDT, Response to Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke, Cultural Sociology and American Studies | 105 | ||
4 Postcolonialism / Transculturalism | 121 | ||
MITA BANERJEE, “Frontiers of Justice”: Visions of Planetarity andthe “Case Study” of India in a Globalized World | 123 | ||
RUTH MAYER, Postcolonial/Transcultural/Transnational: American Studies, American Literature, and the World | 139 | ||
ULLA HASELSTEIN, Response to Ruth Mayer and Mita Banerjee | 157 | ||
5 The Concept of Recognition and Literary Studies | 165 | ||
WINFRIED FLUCK, The Concept of Recognition and American CulturalStudies | 167 | ||
PETER SCHNECK, Response to Winfried Fluck, Recognition – Real and Imaginary | 209 | ||
6 Ecology, Culture, and Literature | 219 | ||
HUBERT ZAPF, Ecology, Culture, and Literature | 221 | ||
HANJO BERRESSEM, Response to Hubert Zapf, ‘Start at the End’: Reading Hubert Zapf’s Paper Backwards | 243 | ||
ALFRED HORNUNG, Response to Hubert Zapf | 253 | ||
7 Race | 261 | ||
HEIKE PAUL, ‘Race,’ Racism, and Tacit Knowing | 263 | ||
SABINE BROECK, Response to Heike Paul,In the Presence of Racism | 289 | ||
8 Ethics and Aesthetics | 297 | ||
THOMAS CLAVIEZ, Traces of a Metonymic Society in AmericanLiterary History | 299 | ||
SUSANNE ROHR, Response to Thomas Claviez, Acts of Compassion and the ‘Desire for Community’ | 323 | ||
9 Science, Culture, and Aesthetics | 329 | ||
ERIK REDLING AND SABINE SIELKE, Science|Culture|Aesthetics:New Crossroads for North American Studies? | 331 | ||
KLAUS BENESCH, | 353 | ||
10 Media | 361 | ||
WILLIAM URICCHIO, Things to Come in the American Studies – MediaStudies Relationship | 363 | ||
FRANK KELLETER, Response to William Uricchio,“There’s Something Happening Here”:Digital Humanities and American Studies | 383 | ||
11 Visual Cultures | 399 | ||
UDO J. HEBEL, ‘American’ Pictures and (Trans-)NationalIconographies: Mapping Interpictorial Clusters inAmerican Studies | 401 | ||
MARTIN KLEPPER, Response to Udo J. Hebel | 433 | ||
CONTRIBUTORS | 467 |