The Futures of American Studies

The Futures of American Studies

  • Autor: Wiegman, Robyn; Pease, Donald E.; Radway, Janice
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: New Americanists
  • ISBN: 9780822329572
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822384199
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2002
  • Mes: Octubre
  • Pàgines: 632
  • DDC: 973/.071
  • Idioma: Anglés
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American Studies considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist—and antinationalist—discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars.

Contributors. Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman / Futures
  • Posthegemonic
    • Jan Radway / What’s in a Name?
    • Lisa Lowe / The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique
    • José Esteban Muñoz / The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia
    • Amy Kaplan / Manifest Domesticity
    • Donald E. Pease / C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies
    • Comparativist
    • John Carlos Rowe / Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies
    • Dana Heller / Salesman in Moscow
    • Walter Benn Michaels / Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction
    • Carl Gutiérrez-Jones / Color Blindness and Acting Out
  • Differential
    • Robyn Wiegman / Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity
    • Lindon Barrett / Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘‘The Hammer Man’’
    • Ricardo L. Ortíz / Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ‘‘Our’’ New America(s)
    • Nancy Bentley / Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel
    • Gillian Brown / Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children
    • William V. Spanos / American Studies in the ‘‘Age of the World Picture’’: Thinking the Question of Language
  • Counterhegemonic
    • Michael Denning / Work and Culture in American Studies
    • George Lipsitz / ‘‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements
    • Günter H. Lenz / Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s)
    • Paul Lauter / American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class
    • Eric Cheyfitz / The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies
    • Russ Castronovo / Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen
  • Afterword
  • Dana D. Nelson / ConsterNation
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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