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Del 52 - Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 194 kr
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«The Brownies’ Book»: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 325 kr
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‘The Brownies’ Book:’ Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America’s first magazine for young African-Americans. Published by W.E.B. Du Bois in cooperation with Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill, the monthly hoped to foster a new African-American identity by (re)connecting «the children of the sun» with Africa, by turning them into proud Americans, and by educating them to be global citizens. The editors turned the crow into a positive symbol of blackness and provided photographs which proved that «black is beautiful» to increase the self-esteem of black youths. The magazine was a harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and served as a creative outlet for many African-American writers and artists, among them many women.
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Uebersetzung amerikanischer Texte in deutschen Printmedien
Eine Analyse der Textsorten Nachricht und Reportage vor dem Hintergrund der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen
Inbunden, Tyska, 2013
882 kr
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Narrating North American Borderlands
Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
810 kr
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The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the USA and Canada. The novels address important border-oriented aspects such as indigeneity, the borderlands as historic territory and as utopian space, border crossing and transcendence, post-9/11 security issues, social interaction along the border, and gender specifics. The interpretation also examines the meaning of border imaginaries, border conceptualizations, and the theme of resistance and subversion.
Del 66 - Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik
How to Become Jewish Americans?
The «A Bintel Brief» Advice Column in Abraham Cahan’s Yiddish «Forverts»
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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Created by Abraham Cahan in 1906, the advice column A Bintel Brief ran as the most enduring feature of the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts for over seven decades. This study takes a closer look at the letters and responses to A Bintel Brief thereby revealing the hardships of uprooted Eastern European Jews. In an uncharted environment they turned to the column for guidance. In his answers, the editor of The Bintel Brief was always sympathetic, yet pragmatic, encouraging assimilation and ethnic group solidarity, thus paving the way for the readers to become accepted Jewish Americans.
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Prag in Der Amerikanischen Literatur: Cynthia Ozick Und Philip Roth
Inbunden, Tyska, 2016
1 188 kr
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Motherhood and Self-Realization in the Four Waves of American Feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Fiction
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 112 kr
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The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates’s recent fiction. While the first and second wave of feminism repudiated motherhood, the third wave claimed the right to enjoy it. The present fourth wave is now reviving the reservations about motherhood of the first two waves. This book demonstrates how Oates’s writing reflects these shifts and how Oates takes up and transforms feminist standpoints in her work without writing conventional feminist literature. Literary criticism has only marginally dealt with Oates’s mother figures. Drawing on Gender Studies and, in particular, on the transnational relation between French and American feminism, this book fills this gap.
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Power of Smell in American Literature
Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely – but unjustly – overlooked in literary and cultural studies. Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as Melville, Whitman, Equiano, Wilkins Freeman, Faulkner, Morrison, or Ellison, the author shows how smell stereotypes are used to discriminate against people and how odor references serve to undermine oppressive power structures. For this purpose, the author traces the cultural history of odor and combines insights from fields such as critical race, gender, intersectionality, trauma, and affect theories.
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Popular Anti-Icon in American Sports
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 131 kr
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Amidst the flood of studies on cultural icons as ordering elements of societies and role models, sports icons have been neglected in scholarship despite their significance in the US. Even less attention has been paid to the emergence of popular «anti-icons» who undermine the original sports-hero ideology and its claim of the interdependence of athletic success and moral normativity.This study analyzes the phenomenon of the popular anti-icon in American sports. Based on case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds the author shows how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports, as these fields became increasingly intertwined. These athletes subverted the sports-hero ideology and still became successful on the field but also popular off the field – especially in commercializing their anti-iconic images.
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Exercise of Soft Power – U.S. Self-Imaging in International Broadcasting to Iran
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
709 kr
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While imagological works in the field of American Studies have traditionally focused on the construction of America by outsiders, this study takes a new approach by examining U.S. self-imaging efforts in the context of U.S. international broadcasting to Iran. The author traces the history of the Voice of America’s Persian Service and illustrates its conflict-prone organizational framework and modus operandi by considering legal documents, government reports, and personal interviews. As the inductive programming analysis and the case study of Simaye Amrica show, the Persian Service pursues a twofold image cultivation strategy by aiming to shape Iranian perceptions of the U.S. government in its news and political shows and perceptions of the American people in its arts and cultural programs.
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American Patriotism and Corporate Identity in Automobile Advertising
«What’s Good for General Motors Is Good for the Country and Vice Versa?»
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
981 kr
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The triumphal march of the automobile and its connection with American culture have often been acknowledged in scholarship. By contrast, the culture-specific, value-oriented advertising strategies of the most important US carmaker General Motors (GM) in its home market have received less attention, especially in American Studies. This study focuses on the connection between GM products and America and the fundamental values represented by politics, business, and society. The author examines which textual and visual strategies GM uses in its image advertising to establish and maintain its patriotic American image. He argues that GM’s advertising campaigns follow a patriotic leitmotif and are consistently in line with American core values, often generating new patriotic ideas.
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Revisiting Walt Whitman
On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 134 kr
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The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples of his influence as well as suggestive parallels in contemporary poetry and thought. One common concern is the question of Whitman’s understanding of democracy and its consequences for poetry and art. Revisiting Whitman has no revisionist agenda. Nor is it nearly celebratory: it also shows tensions and ambivalences in the oeuvre of "The Good Gray Poet."
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Appropriating Thomas Jefferson, 1929-1945
We Are All Jeffersonians Now
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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This study counters the view that Franklin D. Roosevelt hegemonically exalted Thomas Jefferson to iconic dominance during the Great Depression. It analyzes the diversity of those who appropriated Jefferson to find answers to the socio-economic crisis and modern industrial capitalism. This discourse analysis, spanning the ideological spectrum between 1929–1945, reveals that the creation of the Jefferson icon—in various forms of representation—generated counterhegemonic varieties of Jefferson because the appropriators grafted their values onto the historical figure which led to its transformation. These competing versions of Jefferson expressed a reformed sense of national values not only through commonalities but through the flexibility of interpretative and representational differences.
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Horses of Cormac McCarthy’s «All the Pretty Horses»: Rides and Rites of Passage
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
765 kr
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The horses in All the Pretty Horses are ubiquitous but rarely the center of attention. Their depiction is surprisingly authentic and without anthropomorphization. This book illustrates how an equicentric reading offers new insights into the novel’s spaces, characters, and relationships. It features comparisons with popular horse-narratives and an equicentric analysis of the novel’s gender relations. How does horsemanship redefine masculinity? What is the inherent connection between femininity and the equine? This book answers these questions from an equicentric perspective, while taking into account patterns of anthropocentrism and misogyny. In addition, the focus is on the narratees and on how the degree of equine experience they bring to the narrative may enhance the horses’ figurative significance.
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Crossing, Trespassing, and Subverting Borders in Chicana Writing
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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The border and border-crossing and its significance for the Chicana in a cultural, social, gendered, and spiritual sense are at the core of this book. The three oeuvres selected—Helena Viramontes’ The Moths and Other Stories, Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters, and Norma Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera—are eloquent examples of feminist Chicana writers who refuse to allow their lives to be restricted by the gender, social, racial, and cultural border and who portray how Chicana women rebel against the unfair treatment they receive from their fathers, husbands and lovers. Crossing and deconstructing the man-made borders means to leave behind the known territory and discover an unknown land, in the hope of finding a new world in which Chicana women have the same rights as white women and in which they can realize their self, develop a new mestiza consciousness and liberate themselves from patriarchal constraints and religious beliefs. The author shows how the newly won self-confidence empowers the Chicana to explore the opportunities this freedom offers.
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Atheism and Theism in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
«Heavens of Invention»
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
806 kr
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The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of four highly popular works of contemporary fantastic fiction. In doing so, the work demonstrates how the ideological stances and the associated patterns of thought colour the novels’ stylistic and narrative devices. The book also presents a new conditional genre metric that not only helps overcome previous impasses within fantastic genre categories but also allows insight into the aforementioned patterns of Atheist and Theist thinking.
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T. S. Eliots Gedichte in deutscher Sprache
Eine uebersetzungskritische Untersuchung der Uebertragungen von T. S. Eliots Gedichten The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land und Four Quartets
Inbunden, Tyska, 2026
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Alternative Mexiko
Untersuchungen Zu Mexikobildern in Der Us-Amerikanischen Kulturkritik Zwischen 1920 Und 1933
Häftad, Tyska, 2002
801 kr
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Elemente Juedischer Tradition Im Werk Woody Allens
Häftad, Tyska, 1996
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«Poets and Great Audiences»
Amerikanische Dichtung in Anthologien, 1745-1950
Häftad, Tyska, 2005
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Pleasing to the I
The Culture of Personality and Its Representations in Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 107 kr
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Die «Westliche Post»und Der Erste Weltkrieg
Eine Deutschsprachige Zeitung in Den USA Zwischen «Vaterland» Und «Adoptivvaterland»
Häftad, Tyska, 2004
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Framing and Reframing the Ladies
Viewing Attitudes in "The Portrait of a Lady" and Its Cinematic Counterpart
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane Campion as complementary versions of Isabel’s story. The graphic integration of stills functioning as visual evidence emphasizes the dialogic quality of this comparison based on non-essentialist feminist and post-structuralist principles. Mainly focusing on literary and visual strategies employed by both media to represent wo/men on page and screen, this analysis shows how those strategies result in a non-affirmative realism preventing both novel and movie from killing their ‘ladies’ into art.
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Contending Forces
Romantraditionen Amerikanischer Schriftstellerinnen, 1850-1900
Inbunden, Tyska, 2013
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American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival. Spanning six centuries and covering the cultural work and literary representation of eight ethnic groups in the USA and Canada, the essays demonstrate that the scope of the debate has to be widened to reflect the complexity of a subject which has too long been reduced to convenient but simplistic binaries.
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Das Konzept Des Continued Growth Im Leben Und Werk Von Margaret Fuller
Inbunden, Tyska, 2013
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