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31 produkter
Creating Realities – Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Av Erhan Simsek
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Business is woven into the very fabric of American life, yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails to mirror actual business organizations.This book argues that literary representations of business remain ineffable …
Myths That Made America
An Introduction to American Studies
Av Heike Paul
Häftad, 2014
285 kr
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This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the …
American Mobilities
Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
Av Julia Leyda
Häftad, 2016
660 kr
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American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility – social, economic, geographic – in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces …
Power Relations in Black Lives – Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
Av Christa Buschendorf, Christa Buschendorf
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key …
Poets of Protest
Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormrz Literature
Häftad, 2017
640 kr
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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological …
New York Hotel Experience – Cultural and Societal Impacts of an American Invention
Häftad, 2021
561 kr
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For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history. The modern hotel is even an American invention. In five case studies of iconic New York hotels, this book presents the hotel experience of the white upper class, literati, young artists, African Americans and …
Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920
Häftad, 2021
601 kr
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The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the American Southwest, it contributed to two distinct and rapid shifts in political and economic power from the 1850s to the 1920s. Torsten Kathke illustrates …
Loop – Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary
Häftad, 2021
621 kr
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The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff develops a theoretical framework that allows his readers to understand architectural styles as …
Melting Pots & Mosaics – Children of Immigrants in US–American Literature
Häftad, 2021
517 kr
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In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While …
Fugitive Borders – Black Canadian Cross–Border Literature at Mid–Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2021
717 kr
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Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known …
Organon of Life Knowledge – Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
Häftad, 2021
418 kr
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Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused …
Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
Av Ulfried Reichardt, Regina Schober m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
928 kr
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The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which discourses on data collection and versions of the ›corporate self‹ are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, …
Subjects of Substance – Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Häftad, 2021
814 kr
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Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology have increasingly recast the human self as a malleable construct produced by physiological processes. In …
Savage Horrors – The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
Häftad, 2021
533 kr
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The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively sedimented in the Gothic's uniquely binary …
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society – Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
Av Manfred Berg, Günter Leypoldt m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
688 kr
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In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical …
Politics of Gender in Early American Theater – Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices
Av Leopold Lippert, Ralph J. Poole m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1030 kr
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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers …
Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
Häftad, 2021
487 kr
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What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black …
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles – biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change …
Global Curriculum Development
How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2021
464 kr
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How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey's education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design approaches to propose a new educational model for our age …
Imaging the Scenes of War
Aesthetic Crossovers in American Visual Culture
Häftad, 2022
844 kr
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In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its …
Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms
Häftad, 2022
928 kr
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Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of …
Death is Served
The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
Häftad, 2023
816 kr
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The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to …
"Gold Fever" and Women
Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West
Häftad, 2023
1109 kr
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Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. Sigrid Schönfelder illustrates how the American West served as a catalytic gold mine for …
Biosecurity Individual
A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity
Häftad, 2024
992 kr
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Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how …
Suspect Subjects
Queer Legal Futures in the US after Bostock
Häftad, 2025
676 kr
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Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized …
Diversity Issues in the USA
Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidental Elections
Av Melanie Kreitler, Greta Olson
Häftad, 2024
758 kr
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With bans on reproductive rights and access to healthcare, with censorship in schools and universities, and the instrumentalization of rights rhetoric itself, diversity issues stand at the heart of the primary and general elections in the United States. The contributors examine how the American …
Myths That Made America
An Introduction to American Studies
Av Heike Paul
Häftad, 2027
486 kr
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This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the …
Fictions of Ecoterror
Radical Environmentalism in US-American Literature and Film
Av Sarah Marak
Häftad, 2026
719 kr
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Since the emergence of radical environmentalism, two major shifts in the cultural imaginary of the United States can be identified: shaped by 9/11 on the one hand, and the intensifying climate crisis on the other. Sarah Marak examines these shifts analyzing fictional representations in US-American …
Weathering Extremes
Environmental and Cultural Politics of the U.S. Far Right in the Age of Climate Change
Häftad, 2027
733 kr
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For decades, the U.S. far right has been grappling with climate change and questioning the place that environmentalism ought to occupy in its politics. These internal debates have only grown more intense as the effects of climate change in the United States have become difficult to ignore. Axelle …
