Frank Mehring - Böcker

The Environment in Sustainable American Studies offers a multifaceted exploration of the environment within American Studies, featuring contributions that scrutinize the intricate relationship between culture, power, and the environment. This book presents a cutting-edge exploration of the current landscape of environmental American studies in transatlantic perspectives. It investigates this field through diverse lenses, including interdisciplinary, transnational, and activist perspectives with scholars and artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Structured in four sections, it opens with an in-depth analysis of ecological poetics intertwined with settler colonialism in regional fictions, revealing the nuanced complexities of environmental interconnectedness in literature. Further topics covered include environmental justice, Indigenous activism, the role of humanities and the arts in addressing climate change, the impact of flora and fauna in the Anthropocene, including examinations of literature's engagement with environmental concerns, as well as the integration of local and global ecologies within the American Studies curriculum. The book concludes with a section dedicated to art and climate change, where artists, curators, and activists provide critical insights into how art can reorient our focus toward pressing environmental challenges and inspire transformative shifts in our ways of living. Providing a holistic approach on the environment in American studies, this book is suitable for students, researchers and academics across a range of disciplines including American studies, literary studies, environmental studies, cultural studies, and politics.

In a first, this anthology presents essays by art historians and cultural scientists from both sides of the Atlantic to rediscover, analyze and contextualize the rich and largely unknown art of Winold Reiss, opening up a new, previously untapped archive of multicultural Modernism. The German-American artist, who was born in Karlsruhe in 1886 and arrived in New York in 1913, defies instant categorization. With his dual background in fine arts and applied arts he set out to bridge the gulf between "high" and "low" art introducing a bold use of color to the American art scene and to interior design. In his portraits Reiss captured the multi-ethnic diversity of the US. His specific blend of cultural otherness, primitivism, and depictions of ethnicity challenged the conventions of the time. Look inside

Dieses Buch bietet eine eindringliche Analyse der USA als Gesellschaft im kollektiven Ausnahmezustand, in der Amokläufe, Waffenfetischismus und politische Inszenierung keine getrennten Phänomene mehr sind. Es zeigt, wie Gewalt, Affekt und Medienspektakel gemeinsam die demokratische Kultur aushöhlen – und warum dieses Zusammenspiel weit über Amerika hinausreicht. Das Buch richtet sich an politisch und kulturell interessierte Leser:innen, an Studierende, Journalist:innen und Wissenschaftler:innen aus Politik-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft sowie an eine breite Öffentlichkeit, um die aktuellen Gewaltphänomene, den Rechtspopulismus und die Krise der Demokratie in ihrem inneren Zusammenhang zu verstehen.

Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” How is the national framed within a dynamic system of intercultural contact zones highlighting often competing agendas of remembrance? How does the production, (re)mediation, and framing of narratives within different social, territorial, and political environments determine the cultural memory of liberation? The articles compiled in this volume seek to provide new interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the politics and cultures of liberation by examining commemorative practices, artistic responses, and audio-visual media that lend themselves for transnational exploration. They offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy from the war years, through the Cold War era to the 21st century.

Dutch edition: Gezichten van de Bevrijding- Nederlandse versie: Gezichten van de Bevrijding. The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the final resting place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the British Commonwealth. Many of them were killed during the liberation of Europe in the final months of the Second World War. In addition, the impressive Groesbeek Memorial bears the engraved names of 1,011 soldiers who have been missing since the crossing of the Seine in August 1944. This richly illustrated book brings their stories to life. Who were these young men who gave their lives for freedom, democracy and peace? 'Faces of Liberation' is not only a historical document, but also a living tribute to the deep transatlantic ties between the Netherlands and Canada. Thanks to the efforts of Dutch volunteers, who maintain contact with Canadian relatives, the memories of these fallen servicemen live on. With special attention to the Canadian contribution to the liberation of the Netherlands, the role of First Nations soldiers, and the way in which this history is commemorated in both countries, Faces of Liberation offers a novel perspective on the legacy of war and how it is remembered. The extensive lists of names of the fallen and missing also makes it not only a unique reference work but also a powerful reminder of our enduring duty to remember.