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Critical Regionalism
Herausgeber: Lösch, Klaus | Paul, Heike | Zwingenberger, Meike | Falk, Jasmin
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Bd. 18
2016
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Abstract
This volume presents analyses of cultural practices and literary/visual representations in the larger field of American Studies that apply a critical regionalist approach. Loosely defined as a Set of anti-foundational perspectives in the wake of the spatial turn, critical regionalism seeks to investigate apparent regional specificities against the backdrop of local/global trajectories. Taking their cue from urban studies, the essays in this volume inquire about the region as a category of difference (alongside race, gender, class) and as a possibly subversive point of view from which to critique hegemonic spatial (and capitalist) formations. Topics include an ecocritical analysis of the commodification of bees in the United States (Cheryl Herr), a discussion of multifarious border cultures in the Southwest (Silvia Spitta), an exploration of the role of the regional and the global in the modern women’s movement (Katharina Gerund), a critique of region and class with regard to “rednexploitation” in television culture (Tanja Aho) as well as a critical regionalist account of ruin photography in the United States (Miles Orvell), to Name but a few contributions to this volume. All of them seek to re-appraise questions of region(alism) focusing on patterns of affiliation, economic structures, political protest, and/or aesthetic practices.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Titel | III | ||
| Copyright | IV | ||
| Table of Contents | V | ||
| Klaus LÖSCH, Heike PAUL, Critical Regionalism: An Introduction | 1 | ||
| Cheryl TEMPLE HERR, Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies: Bees in Crisis | 11 | ||
| Miles ORVELL, Ruins, Places, and Photography: Toward a Cultural Aesthetics of Catastrophe | 25 | ||
| Claudia SADOWSKI-SMITH, Critical Regionalism and US Borders | 39 | ||
| Silvia SPITTA, The InSurgent Imagination of Tijuana: Transculturation, Ironic Disciplines, and TransBorder Studies | 57 | ||
| Carmen BROSIG, “Branches of the Same Tree”: Chicano/a Vietnam Solidarity and the Making of Aztlán | 79 | ||
| Birgit M. BAURIDL, From Grafenwoehr to ‘Graf’: A Transnational American Region in Bavaria | 103 | ||
| Katharina GERUND, Sisterhood Is Regional? US-American Women’s Activism between the Global and the Local | 131 | ||
| Amy Doherty MOHR, Over There: Willa Cather’s Mobilization of Domestic Spaces in "One of Ours" | 153 | ||
| Rachael PRICE, Blue Northers and Barbed Wire: Modernization and the Village in Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show | 173 | ||
| Tanja N. AHO, Reality Television, Critical Regionalism, and Low Theory: Paranoid and Reparative Readings of Representations of Class and Race in the US South | 193 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 215 | ||
| Back Cover | Back C |
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