A Concise Companion to American Studies

A Concise Companion to American Studies
ISBN-10
1444319086
ISBN-13
9781444319088
Category
Social Science
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
2010-02-12
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
John Carlos Rowe

Description

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies

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