The Futures of American Studies

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The Futures of American Studies

Edited by: Robyn Wiegman and Donald E. Pease
With contributions by: Janice Radway

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2002

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New Americanists

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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

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Futures Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Posthegemonic
What’s in a Name? Jan Radway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
The International within the National Lisa Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
The Future in the Present José Esteban Muñoz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
Manifest Domesticity Amy Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies Donald E. Pease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Comparativist
Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies John Carlos Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Salesman in Moscow Dana Heller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism Winfried Fluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction Walter Benn Michaels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Color Blindness and Acting Out Carl Gutiérrez-Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	248
Differential
Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity Robyn Wiegman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘‘The Hammer Man’’ Lindon Barrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ‘‘Our’’ New America(s) Ricardo L. Ortíz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel Nancy Bentley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children Gillian Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
American Studies in the ‘‘Age of the World Picture’’: Thinking the Question of Language William V. Spanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
Counterhegemonic
Work and Culture in American Studies Michael Denning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
‘‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements George Lipsitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s) Günter H. Lenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class Paul Lauter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	486
The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies Eric Cheyfitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	510
Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen Russ Castronovo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	536
Afterword
ConsterNation Dana D. Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	559
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	581
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	609
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	613

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9780822384199

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632

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