| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge advances in American history ; 8 |
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Routledge advances in American history ; 8.
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| Contents |
Introduction: a critique of transnational approaches to community -- The ontology of cultural groups in modernity -- Place-making -- Literature as a device of cultural appropriation -- A coda to literary canons -- Art and power -- Forced acculturation -- Transmedia storytelling -- Colonial problems, transnational American studies -- Imagining new communities |
| Summary |
"After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms--including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media--the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis)."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2017) |
| Subject |
Exceptionalism -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American -- History
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Frontier thesis -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Exceptionalism
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Frontier thesis
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National characteristics, American
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Education
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Study and teaching -- History
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017037513 |
| ISBN |
9781315167053 |
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1315167050 |
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9781351681827 |
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1351681826 |
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