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Transnational American Memories

von
Hebel, UdoHrsg.
E-BookPDFDRM AdobeE-Book
467 Seiten
Englisch
De Gruytererschienen am04.09.20091. Auflage

The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world's fairs as international sites of memory.



Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.mehr
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The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world's fairs as international sites of memory.



Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Details
Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783110224214
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format HinweisDRM Adobe
FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2009
Erscheinungsdatum04.09.2009
Auflage1. Auflage
ReiheMedia and Cultural Memory
Reihen-Nr.11
Seiten467 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Illustrationen35 b/w ill.
Artikel-Nr.1032091
Rubriken
Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Frontmatter;2
2;Contents;6
3;Introduction;10
4;Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth;20
5;Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier;42
6;Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez´s Disease Narrative;68
7;Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters;88
8;Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch´s The Heartsong of Charging Elk;114
9;Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty´s Autobiographical Writing;138
10;Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer´s Everything Is Illuminated;154
11;Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo;180
12;Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I;194
13; Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France : Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers;224
14;Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory;252
15;Remembering the Forgotten War´ and Containing the Remembered War:´ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War;276
16;Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero;294
17;(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago´s World´s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory;320
18;Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C.;342
19;Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley;360
20; A Lens into What It Means to Be an American : African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory;386
21;Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century;414
22;Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century;434
23;Commentary Epilogue;456
24;Notes on Contributors;462mehr