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Book SynopsisThe volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and strengthened national borders alongside multiple challenges to national sovereignty.
Table of ContentsContents: Marietta Messmer: Transcending Borders: The International Turn in American Studies – Michael Boyden: The Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies Through the Lens of Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory – Ricardo D. Salvatore: If Bolton Were to Awake Today: Early Efforts Towards a Comprehensive Hemispheric History of the Americas – Jane C. Desmond: «And Never the Twain Shall Meet?»: Considering the Legacies of Orientalism and Occidentalism for the Transnational Study of the U.S. – Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Literary Studies in the Early Twenty-First Century: The View from the United States – Josef Raab: Difference Matters: Toward an Inter-American Approach to «Race», Ethnicity, and Belonging – Amós Nascimento: Inter-(African-Latin-)American: An Experiment in «Inter-Location» – Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: Transnationality and Temporality in Early African American Texts – Armin Paul Frank: A Rationale for a Comprehensive Study of the History of United States Literary Culture – Daniel Göske: The Literary World in the «American Renaissance» and the International Context of American Studies – Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Studies as an Emerging Field: The Future of a Discipline – Claudia Sadowski-Smith/Claire F. Fox: Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies – Liam Kennedy: American Studies Without Tears, or What Does America Want?
