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American Counter/Publics
Herausgeber: Haselstein, Ulla | Kelleter, Frank | Starre, Alexander | Wege, Birte
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 304
2019
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Abstract
The “public sphere”—an idea with deep roots in the European enlightenment—has always been a contested concept in American culture and society. American intellectuals, artists, politicians, and activists have stressed the non-unitary, diversified, and oppositional dynamics of all things public. From the early days of the American republic, competing interest groups and commercial mass media (first newspapers, novels, and the theater, then radio, television, and the internet) have worked to pluralize public speech and public action—and ultimately the notion of “publicness” itself. This essay collection explores the public sphere in North America as a multi-agential, commercially embattled, highly mediated, and ultimately trans-nationalized aggregate of publics and counterpublics. The contributors present innovative theoretical and historical assessments of American counter/publics across an array of fields including social activism, political communication, literary discourse, and contemporary mass media.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege Introduction: American Counter/Publics | 9 | ||
| Section I Constructions of the Public Sphere | 19 | ||
| Sarah E. Igo Thinking Publics: The History of a Promise and a Problem | 21 | ||
| Laura Bieger Learning from Hannah Arendt; or, the Public Sphere as a Space of Appearance and the Fundamental Opacity of the Face-to-Face | 37 | ||
| Kay M. Losey Political Tweets as Infotainment: The Decline of Public Discourse in the United States | 53 | ||
| Section II Mobilizing Dissent | 69 | ||
| Catherine R. Squires Generating Creative Friction: Counter-Narratives and Ethical Imaginaries at Home in Black Counterpublics | 71 | ||
| Carmen Dexl Navigating the Line between Consent and Dissent: Josephine Baker as a Cultural Icon, International Star, and Social Activist | 87 | ||
| Hannah Spahn Public Feeling in Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign | 103 | ||
| Anne Nassauer Documenting Dissent: US Mainstream Media Reports versus Activists’ Capture and Representation of Protests | 117 | ||
| Section III The Formation of Counter/Publics | 135 | ||
| Andrew Gross Vaccination, Inoculation, and Franklin’s Grief | 137 | ||
| Ferdinand Nyberg Spacing Out: Temperance, Threat, and Alcoholic Space in Antebellum America | 159 | ||
| Antje Dallmann Publicizing Medicine: Medical Humor, Medical Professionalism, and Scientific Racism in Henry Clay Lewis’s ‚Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor‘ | 175 | ||
| Mischa Honeck The Senator and His Satirist: Carl Schurz, Thomas Nast, and the Ethnicization of Political Humor | 191 | ||
| Section IV Prison Publics | 207 | ||
| Jayne Thompson How to Listen: Collecting the Voices of Incarcerated Women | 209 | ||
| Kristina Graaff Navigating (Black) Public (Counter) Spheres: Black Popular Fiction and the US System of Mass Incarceration | 221 | ||
| Lee A. Flamand Articulating Counter/Publics and Re-Assembling History: Ava DuVernay’s ‚13th‘ | 237 | ||
| Section V Media/Publics | 249 | ||
| Martin Lüthe Media(ted) Publics in the Progressive Era and the Telegraphic Fictions of ‚Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes‘ | 251 | ||
| Katherine G. Lacson The ‚Manileña‘ Marked Woman | 263 | ||
| Michael Connors Jackman The Horizons of a Queer Counterpublic: Intended Audience in Sexual Liberation Activism | 279 | ||
| Viola Huang The Black Power Movement in Documentary Films: The Tensions between Public and Counterpublic History | 295 | ||
| Section VI Literary and Popular Counter/Publics | 311 | ||
| Elisabeth Bronfen The Mimicry of Care: Strategies of Sentimentalism in ‚Homeland‘ and ‚House of Cards‘ | 313 | ||
| Maria Sulimma “Sir, she can hear you”: The Mute White Woman as Cinematic Meditation on Gender, Communication, and Heterosexual Romance | 325 | ||
| Stephan Kuhl The Private Sphere of the Text: Emily Dickinson’s Literary Practice and Her Public | 343 | ||
| Christina Meyer Middlebrow Publics? Reading Gender in the Serial Press, 1910-1930 | 359 | ||
| Section VII The Public Humanities | 377 | ||
| Philipp Löffler Consequences of Academic Reading? Professionalism, Critique, and the Public Humanities | 379 | ||
| Antje Kley Public Humanities and Literary Knowledge: Four Theses on How Reading Matters for Public Debate | 397 | ||
| Contributors | 409 | ||
| Backcover | Backcover |
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