Americanisms

Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange. Edited by Michael Steppat.

23 contributions employ diverse methodical approaches from the humanities together with the social and geographical sciences to explore the contents of the topos of Americanism, which have become decisive for the project of the modern. Transdisciplinary exchange opens an opportunity to re-assess the effects and dynamic metamorphoses of Americanism. The protean shapes of identification with or counter-identification against the United States, and at times Canada, are vital for the acceleration rate of cultural innovation. Contributions by T. Michael Maher, David T. Sumner, Jay David Bolter, Martina Leeker, Oliver Lepsius, Hellmut Fröhlich, Glenn W. Shuck/John M. Stroup, Karsten Fitz, Anno Mungen, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Thomas Bargatzky, James A. Miller, Marc Murschhauser, Helen May Dennis/Michael Steppat, Ute Fendler, Jürgen E. Müller, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Guy Thomson, Georg Kamphausen, Anke Matuschewski, Marion Linhardt, Bernd Müller-Jacquier and Susanne Mühleisen. IX,406 Seiten mit 22 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 173/Universitätsverlag Winter 2009) Lagerspuren