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Participation in American Culture and Society

Herausgeber: Löffler, Philipp | Peterfy, Margit | Rauscher, Natalie | Werner, Welf

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 322

2024

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Abstract

Participation is a core value of the U.S.-American concept of the nation. The promise of participation encompasses full and equal access to participate in political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities. At the same time, exclusion from social participation has been salient in the history of the U.S., and recently even a decline in participation alongside growing polarization can be observed. The notion of participation, however, is more comprehensive than such a narrow political perspective may suggest. Forms of literary production and reception can likewise be understood as social practices of participation. This volume sheds light on how participation has been debated in contemporary Americanist scholarship. The papers included explore the idea of participation beyond its function as a political principle in a democratic nation-state, which will help to understand in more detail the diverse relationships between the literary, the cultural, and the political.

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Cover Cover
Titel 3
Imprint 4
Contents 5
Preface 9
PHILIPP LÖFFLER, MARGIT PETERFY, NATALIE RAUSCHER, WELF WERNER: Introduction: Participation in Crisis? 11
Section I: Politics and Society 37
CAROL ANDERSON: One Person, No Vote: Rigging the Rules 39
JUDY TZU-CHUN WU: Pacific Feminist Imaginaries: The 1977 US National Women’s Conference and the Politics of Territorial Representation 83
LAURA KETTEL: Unequal Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and Exclusion in the American City 121
SILKE BRASELMANN: Teaching About Black Lives Matter, Teaching Against Racism: Opportunities for Participation in Antiracist English Language Teacher Education 137
HELEN A. GIBSON: Teaching Towards Calvin Warren’s Nonmetaphysical Historiography 163
Section II: Literary Studies and the Arts 179
ANDREW ERICKSON: Refusing American History: Non-participation and Narrative Resistance in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‚The Water Dancer‘ 181
MARCEL HARTWIG: ‚Felon‘, Convict, Attorney: Reginald Dwayne Betts and the Poetics of Re-Entry 193
MAGDA MAJEWSKA: The Literary Prestige of Censorship: The Case of ‚Naked Lunch‘ 207
TIM LANZENDÖRFER: Participatory Literary Studies and the Question of Public Method 223
KIRSTEN TWELBECK: Community Engagement and Participation in Wheatfield. A Confrontation 243
Section III: Media Landscapes 259
MARTIN BUTLER: The Audience Strikes Back… Or Does It? Formations of Participation and the Figure of the Amateur in New Media Environments 261
JULIANN KNAUS: Participatory Platform versus Condemning Community: In/Exclusion in the Black Natural Hair Movement on YouTube 287
LENA GOTTESWINTER: Appropriation as Participation: A 21ˢᵗ-Century Reshaping of the Cultural Memory of Hip 301
TAMARA HEGER: Who gets to be a Liberator? Participation and Recognition in Robert W. Hacker’s ‚Flossenbürg Concentration Camp‘ 323
List of Contributors 339
Backcover 347