{"product_id":"american-studies-overseas-1-narrating-multiple-americas-9781433187445","title":"American Studies OverSeas 1 Narrating Multiple","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s)\u003c\/em\u003e is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most recent turnTransnational American Studiesa paradigm shift in the discipline which runs counter to a consensus version of U.S. history and culture. The essays highlight the dissenting narratives in the study of America as a mindscape, multivocal and varied in its discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. They also evidence the interrelation of the United States with Europe and examine how society, history, literature, and art intersect, providing alternative ways to comprehend the current geopolitical and cultural mindset on both sides of the Atlantic. These are interdisciplinary and diverse texts, authored by both senior leading scholars and promising younger researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume will benefit students and scholars of international American Studies, interdisciplinary and multicultural studies in history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The volumes propose cutting-edge research within the field of American Studies, with knowledgeable and perceptive approaches into the subject of transnational and transatlantic relations. It is hard to imagine a collection of essays that would assemble a larger number of different approaches and platforms.” —Stefan L. Brandt, Professor of American Studies, University of Graz, Austria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Introduction by the Editors – Maria Leonor Telles: Seafaring as a Background for Narrative: From Epic to Magic Realism – Maria Zina Gonçalves De Abreu: Transatlantic Migration of Early Modern England Demonology Doctrines and Mindset to Colonial America – Ana Kocić Stanković: Representations of \"the Other\" in Melville’s \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e and American Colonial Literature – Steffen Wöll: \"True Places Never Are\": Navigating Transoceanic Imaginations in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e – Rute Beirante: Transatlantic Stories: Herman Melville’s Diptychs Over the Sea – Maria Antónia Lima: The Blackness of Whiteness in Melville’s Gothic Sea – Erik Van Achter: Tekeli-li: Poe’s \u003ci\u003eArthur Gordon Pym and\u003c\/i\u003e Johnson’s \u003ci\u003ePym\u003c\/i\u003e – Fernanda Luísa Feneja: The Individual and the Group: Allegory Revisited in Stephen Crane’s \"The Open Boat\" – Ana Barroso: Once upon a Time in the West: Nature, No-Places and a Journey. A Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e through the Lenses of \u003ci\u003eMoby- Dick\u003c\/i\u003e – Isabel Caldeira: Liquid Grave, or Route to Freedom? Edwidge Danticat’s \"Children of the Sea\" – Mike Flynn: Moral Injury in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e – Catarina Pombo Nabais: Creation and Its Conditions: Bartleby’s Creative Power Through the Lens of European Metaphysics – Cecilia Beecher Martins: Bartleby: \"A Bit of Wreck\" Lost at Sea as Captain Ahab? – Tony McGowan: Reification Poetics in the Late Poetry of Whitman and Melville – M. Irene Ramalho-antos: Sailing the Word: Poets. Scholars. Constellations – Isabel Fernandes: Recovering Touch in D. H. Lawrence’s \"The Blind Man\" and Raymond Carver’s \"Cathedral\" – Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves: \"Hours for the Soul\": Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman’s and Mary Oliver’s Seascapes – Konstantinos Blatanis: The Significance of the Sea in Eugene O’Neill’s Early Work: The Formation of a Chronicle of Change – José Duarte: As \u003ci\u003eIlhas Encantadas\u003c\/i\u003e (1965): Melville and the Portuguese \"Novo Cinema\" – Mário Avelar: Transatlantic Debunkings of History: Frank O’Hara and Jorge de Sena – Maria José Canelo: Shaping the Visuality of the \"American Century\" in \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine through the Lenses of Women Photographers – Shelley Fisher Fishkin: The Transnational Travels of \"Global Huck\" – Teresa Seruya: The German Language Travels Overseas: How Mark Twain and Abbas Khider Experienced this \"Awful Language\" – Rita Queirozde Barros\/Alexandra Assis Rosa: English as a Global Language and Attitudes on Multilingualism: A Critical Discussion – Eduarda Melo Cabrita\/Maria Luísa Falcão\/IsabelFerro Mealha: The Immigrant Experience: An MI Approach to \"A Wife’s Story\" by Bharati Mukherjee – Ricardo L. Ortiz: America, Overseas? Alternative Circulations of the Global in U.S. Latinx Literature After Empire – Winfried Fluck: Crossing National Borders: American Exceptionalism and Transnational American Studies – Notes on Contributors – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039684723031,"sku":"9781433187445","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433187445.jpg?v=1750944481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-studies-overseas-1-narrating-multiple-americas-9781433187445","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}