The Futures of American Studies (New Americanists) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822329654 ISBN 13: 9780822329657

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2002

Synopsis

Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American Studies considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist—and antinationalist—discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars.

Contributors. Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos

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From the Publisher

"The Futures of American Studies shapes a far-sighted 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

From the Back Cover

"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"

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0822329654
• ISBN 13: 9780822329657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Donald E. Pease, Robyn Wiegman