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A companion to American literature and culture
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.
* Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more
* Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter
* Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices
* Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
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The Futures of American Studies
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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