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American Lives

Herausgeber: Hornung, Alfred

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 234

2013

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Abstract

This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Däwes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hustvedt among others cover the wide range of the presentation and performance of selves in colonial literature, nature writing, immigrant and campaign auto/biographies, religion, film, TV Series, rap music, graphic presentations, comics, and sports. Addressing the transnational self-affirmations of American citizens in Hawai'i, the Caribbean islands, on reservations, and in urban ghettos they represent the diversified panorama of American lives.

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Table of Contents V
ALFRED HORNUNG - American Lives: Preface IX
Keynote Lectures 3
SIDONIE SMITH - “America’s Exhibit A”: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History and the Genres of Authenticity 3
THOMAS BENDER - Intellectual Biography and the Matrix of Creativity 27
CRAIG HOWES - Slow Lives: Micro-Traditions in American and Hawaiian Biography and Autobiography 49
BIRGIT DÄWES - “What happens when the vanishing race doesn’t vanish?” Scenes of Native North American Historio/Biography 77
SIRI HUSTVEDT - Borderlands: First, Second, and Third Person Adventures in Crossing Disciplines 111
History and American Lives 139
PATRICK ERBEN - “Ship-Mate-Ship”: Commemorating the Lives of Friends in Francis Daniel Pastorius’s Anniversary Poems 139
CARSTEN JUNKER - Narrating Family Lives: Religion and Enslavement in Samuel West’s Memoirs (1807) 157
KIRSTEN TWELBECK - Reconstructing Race Relations: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary and Her Life among the Freedmen 173
HANNAH SPAHN - Eliza Potter’s “barberous profession”: Self, Race, Life 189
KATHLEEN LOOCK - Laughing at the Greenhorn: Humor in Immigrant Autobiographies 207
Politics and American Lives 227
MARKUS F. FALTERMEIER - Self, Other, and Catholicism in Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness (1952): Narrative Constructions of a Personalist Identity 227
KATHY-ANN TAN - “Creating Dangerously”: Writing, Exile and Diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s and Dany Laferrière’s Haitian Memoirs 249
CEDRIC ESSI - Transnational Affiliations in the Mixed Race Memoir: Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father 261
CHRISTINA GERKEN - The DREAMers: Narratives of Deservingness in Pro-Immigrant Activism in the Twenty-First Century 283
JOCHEN ECKE - Grant Morrison’s ‘Fiction Suits’: Comics Autobiography as Genre Fiction/Genre Fiction as Comics Autobiography 297
LUKAS ETTER - On the Drawing Board: The Many Autobiographical “Wedges” of Alison Bechdel 313
EVA BOESENBERG - Family Business: Death in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home 327
Media and American Lives 341
NASSIM WINNIE BALESTRINI - Photography as Online Life Writing: Miranda July’s and Harrell Fletcher’s Learning to Love You More (2002-09) 341
BIRGIT M. BAURIDL - “Deep-Mapping” the Diversity of New York Lives: The “City of Memory” Digital Project 355
KATJA KANZLER - Adaptation and Self-Expression in Julie/Julia 369
DUSTIN BREITENWISCHER - Life and Times of . . . Promethean (Counter-)Narratives and the Poetic Function of Aesthetic Experience in Rap 381
CHRISTOPH RIBBAT - Staring at (the Man Formerly Known as) Lew Alcindor: The Cultural Politics of a Basketball Life 401
FRANK MEHRING - Remediating Multi-Racial Memories: Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years and the Genealogy of Afro-German Life Writing 415
JULIA FAISST - Rebuilding the Neighborhood: Race, Property, and Urban Renewal Projects in Tremé 443
Life Writing and Life Science 467
BIRGIT CAPELLE - A Transcultural Consideration of “Place”: Thoreau’s Walden Pond and Kitarō Nishida’s “basho” 467
DIRK VANDERBEKE - The Mental Detective: Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn 479
HENRIKE LEHNGUTH - The Killer Inside: First-Person Narration and the Reader/Viewer in Serial Killer Narratives 491
MARTIN HOLTZ - The Pathological Protagonist in Recent Films by Martin Scorsese 507
JAN D. KUCHARZEWSKI - Survival of the Sickest? Cognitive Disorders and the Question of Agency in Contemporary American Fiction 521
M. BANERJEE, R. DAHM, B. DÄWES, C. HOWES, S. HUSTVEDT, N.W. PAUL, S. SMITH, J. WATSON - Panel on Life Sciences and Life Writing 537
Contributors 561