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Developing Transnational American Studies

Herausgeber: Gernalzick, Nadja | Spickermann, Heike C.

Intercultural Studies, Bd. 8

2019

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Transnational American Studies have been developed by international and internationally minded scholars to address the need for border-crossing awareness, knowledge and consciousness of difference. In a decisive change from the comparativist pattern of investigation between two or more assumed units, the transnational approach intends a further opening of cultural systems. With their transnational turn, the focus of American Studies has become relocated to increasingly international and global concerns of knowledge production and cultural transfer as well as to multi- and transnational discourses. This volume combines Transnational American Studies from diverse angles in the four general areas “Repositioning the American South”, “Life, Literature, Ecocriticism”, “Life Writing and Medicine” and “Critical Studies of the Nation”. Written by scholars disciplinarily and institutionally linked to American Studies departments mainly, the themes are, however, not restricted to American Studies as a nationally bound field, but extend and pertain to transnational and global discourses and their conceptual composition and processing.

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Cover C
Title Page 3
Copyright 4
Contents 7
Nadja Gernalzick and Heike C. Spickermann: Preface and Acknowledgements 9
REPOSITIONING THE AMERICAN SOUTH 17
Shelley Fisher Fishkin: Originally of Missouri, Now of the Universe. Mark Twain and the World 19
Manfred Siebald: Cultural Range Wars in R. Lynn Riggs’s ‚Green Grow the Lilacs‘ and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‚Oklahoma!‘ 33
Charles Reagan Wilson: Contesting the Southern Way of Life. Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin’s Autobiography and the Progressive American South during the Interwar Years 45
LIFE, LITERATURE, ECOCRITICISM 55
Zhang Longxi: Nature and Life Writing. A Comparative Study of Henry David Thoreau and Tao Qian 57
Nadja Gernalzick: Humanimagic Relations. Cabeza de Vaca’s Account (1542) and Posthumanism 69
Hubert Zapf: Sustainability and Literature 91
LIFE WRITING AND MEDICINE 101
Rüdiger Kunow: Lives without Memory. Alzheimerʼs Narratives 103
Carmen Birkle: An Eye for an I. Autobiographical Representations, the Medical Gaze, and the Transnational in Nineteenth-Century America 113
CRITICAL STUDIES OF THE NATION 129
Birgit Däwes: Retinal Interfaces and Transparent Eyeballs. The Cultural Imaginary of Surveillance 131
Nicole Waller: “Nonsovereign Histories”. Circumventing the Nation in Spike Lee’s ‚When the Levees Broke‘ 145
Mita Banerjee: A Kaleidoscope of Color or the Agony of Race? Barack Obama’s ‚Dreams from My Father‘ 161
List of Contributors 177
Publications of Alfred Hornung 181
Backcover 192