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The Futures of American Studies
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Edited by:
Robyn Wiegman
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With contributions by:
Janice Radway
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English
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2002
About this book
A state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f
Author / Editor information
Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.
Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both published by Duke University Press.
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“The Futures of American Studies shapes a farsighted and richly provocative argument about the intellectual space, time, and politics of the cultures of American studies. It's a millennial work.”—Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism
“Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which ‘New Americanist’ scholarship is heading.”—Lawrence Buell, author of Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Futures
1 - Posthegemonic
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What’s in a Name?
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The International within the National
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The Future in the Present
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Manifest Domesticity
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C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies
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Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies
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Salesman in Moscow
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The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism
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Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction
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Color Blindness and Acting Out
248 - Differential
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Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity
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Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘‘The Hammer Man’’
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Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ‘‘Our’’ New America(s)
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Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel
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Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children
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American Studies in the ‘‘Age of the World Picture’’: Thinking the Question of Language
387 - Counterhegemonic
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Work and Culture in American Studies
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‘‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements
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Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s)
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American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class
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The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies
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Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen
536 - Afterword
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ConsterNation
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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October 21, 2002
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632
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