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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.

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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