After American Studies

Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-88710-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in American History

After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Critique of Transnational Approaches to Community

1. The Ontology of Cultural Groups in Modernity

2. Place-Making

3. Literature as a Device of Cultural Appropriation

4. A Coda to Literary Canons

5. Art and Power

6. Forced Acculturation

7. Transmedia Storytelling

8. Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies

9. Imagining New Communities

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico.