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Obama and Transnational American Studies
Herausgeber: Hornung, Alfred
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 276
2016
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Abstract
Contributors from five continents address the widespread geographical and political reverberations connected with the emergence of the Name Obama in the media and in the consciousness of the world and relate it to the transformation of a field of studies from a national to a transnational or even global focus. The multi-ethnic biographies of the Obama family extend from its Luo origins in Kenya to Hawai‘i, Asia, and Europe and lend themselves to a Transnational American Studies approach. Auma Obama’s opening address on the future of the young Kenyan generation connects with considerations of her own life in Germany and with Michelle Obama’s initiatives at home and abroad. Essays on early American literature and the Civil Rights Movement suggest the shared historical roots of Transnational American Studies and African American identities and trace the resonances in Barack Obama’s politics and reform efforts, such as Obama Care. Further contributions explore the manifold media representations of and references to Obama in Bollywood, the films of Quentin Tarantino and Sönke Wortmann, hip hop culture, transnational affiliations, legal interrelations, interpictorial and intertextual creations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| ALFRED HORNUNG Preface | ix | ||
| I. Transnational Family andLife Writing | 1 | ||
| Auma OBAMA, You Are Your Future | 3 | ||
| Alfred HORNUNG, Auma Obama’s Intercultural Life Writing | 15 | ||
| Birgit M. BAURIDL, Auma Obama Transangular: Performing Presidency between Africa, Europe, and America | 25 | ||
| Carmen BIRKLE, Leadership and the Visualization of African American Womanhood: Michelle Obama’s and Oprah Winfrey’s Transnational Lives | 45 | ||
| Xiuming HE, Michelle Obama’s Visit to China | 67 | ||
| Greg ROBINSON, Barack Obama: Our First Asian American President | 81 | ||
| II. Transnational Literaturesand Laws | 93 | ||
| Kristina BROSS, Laura M. STEVENS, Before Nation, Beyond Nation: The Place of “Early” in Transnational American Studies | 95 | ||
| Elizabeth J. WEST, We’ve Seen This Before: The Pre-Obama Transnational Figure in Early Black Atlantic Writing | 117 | ||
| Birgit DÄWES, Crossing Oceans: Trans-Indigenous Trajectories | 135 | ||
| Charles REAGAN WILSON, Exploring the South’s Creole Identity: Life Writing from the U.S. South in the Obama Era | 155 | ||
| Glenn T. ESKEW, Barack Obama and the American Civil Rights Movement | 179 | ||
| RÜDIGER KUNOW “Obama Care | 203 | ||
| III. Transnational Media | 221 | ||
| Mita BANERJEE, Bollywood Film and the American President(s): From George W. Bush to Barack Obama | 223 | ||
| Paul GILES, Obama, Tarantino, and Transnational Trauma | 245 | ||
| Sunhee Kim GERTZ, Das Wunder von Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union and the German Soccer Championship of 1954 | 263 | ||
| Carola BETZEN, Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar: Politics and Hip Hop Culture | 303 | ||
| Udo J. HEBEL, Framing Obama: Interpictorial Iconographies of an American President | 327 | ||
| Gesa MACKENTHUN, Hard Choices: Obama and Snowden | 353 | ||
| IV. Transnational Affinities | 373 | ||
| Lothar VON FALKENHAUSEN, Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member’s Tale | 375 | ||
| Nina MORGAN, “Laws of Forgiveness”: Mandela, Obama, Derrida | 391 | ||
| Gerd HURM, Barack Obama and Edward Steichen: A Luxemburgian Seed and the American Liberal Presidency | 417 | ||
| Nicole WALLER, “Foreign in a domestic sense”: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World and Transnational American Studies | 455 | ||
| Jutta ERNST, Lives in Transition: Eugene Jolas’s Man from Babel, the Obama Presidency, and Transnational American Studies | 471 | ||
| Christa BUSCHENDORF, Freedomways: Transnationalism in the Work of Shirley Graham Du Bois | 493 | ||
| Contributors | 521 | ||
| Back Cover | Back C |
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