John Carlos Rowe is professor of English at the University of California , Irvine . Critical American Studies Series University of Minnesota Press Printed in U.S.A. Cover design by Sheila Morris ...
The volume is divided into four parts: Foundations and Backgrounds; Ethnic Studies and American Studies; The New American Studies; and Problems and Issues.
Stuart Hall has remarked on the juridical dimension of James's Melville book by recasting it as an imaginary conversation with an INS officer: "As a part of his defense, he made a wonderfully Jamesian gesture," Hall explains.
The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Excerpt from “Mending Wall” from THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1958 by Robert Frost, copyright 1967 by ...
Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this....
In a brief afterword, Bryce Traister closes the volume by reflecting on the resonance of the term “American Literature” in the wake of the New Puritan Studies. By insisting on colonial Puritanism's continued and pressing visibility, ...
The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America.
In these ways , academic history itself fails to fit the chronology or polarity against which New American Studies is often defined . Since , too , the “ new ” view of culture ( as inclusive , fractured , and dynamic ) seems so ...
In The New American Studies (2002), John Carlos Rowe develops a comparative approach towards American Studies by discussing the works of Bhabha, Lauter, and Pratt. However, Rowe, ultimately, finds the concept of the “contact zone” most ...
A collection of sixty-four essays in which scholars from various fields examine terms and concepts used in cultural and American studies.
In Key Words for American Cultural Studies, ed. Bruce Burgettand Glenn Hendler, 108– 12. New York:NewYork University Press, 2007. . “Rethinking 'American Studies after US Exceptionalism.'”American Literary History 21, no.