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A Concise Companion to American Studies

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John Carlos Rowe
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John Wiley & Sons, Feb 12, 2010 - Social Science - 480 pages
A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience.
  • A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline
  • Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism
  • Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies
  • Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies
  

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Contents

Puritan Origins
19
Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies 18511942
36
The Laboring of American Culture
59
Is Class an American Study?
74
Religious Studies
92
American Languages
124
Ethnic Studies and American Studies
151
Blood Lines and Blood Shed Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies
153
Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition
263
Culture US Imperialism and Globalization
284
Sugar Sex and Empire Sarah Orne Jewetts The Foreigner and the SpanishAmerican War
303
The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies
320
The World Wide Web and Digital Culture New Borders New Media New American Studies
334
Problems and Issues
351
Regionalism
353
The West and Manifest Destiny
369

Native American Studies
172
The Locations of Chicanoa and Latinoa Studies
190
African American Studies
210
Reckoning Nation and Empire Asian American Critique
229
The New American Studies
245
Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance
247
Canadian Studies and American Studies
387
The US University under Siege Confronting Academic Unfreedom
407
Popular Mass and High Culture
432
Index
453
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About the author (2010)

John Carlos Rowe is USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He has written and edited many books, including The Vietnam War and American Culture (1991), Post-Nationalist American Studies (2000), Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (2000), and The New American Studies (2002).

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