Transnational American Memories
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Author |
: Udo Hebel |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2009-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110224214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110224216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transnational American Memories by : Udo Hebel
The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions 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. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific 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 transnational sites of memory.
Author |
: Udo J. Hebel |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110224207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110224208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transnational American Memories by : Udo J. Hebel
The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions 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. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific 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 transnational sites of memory.
Author |
: Jenny Wüstenberg |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2020-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789206951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789206952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Agency in Transnational Memory Politics by : Jenny Wüstenberg
The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
Author |
: Yuan Shu |
Publisher |
: Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2015-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611688481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611688485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Studies as Transnational Practice by : Yuan Shu
This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume elaborates on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and describes the material changes that this new paradigm has effected during the past two decades. The contributors hail from a variety of postcolonial, transoceanic, hemispheric, and post-national positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorize a "crossroads of cultures" explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.
Author |
: Christina Schwenkel |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2009-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253003317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253003318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American War in Contemporary Vietnam by : Christina Schwenkel
Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.
Author |
: Winfried Fluck |
Publisher |
: UPNE |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611681895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611681898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies by : Winfried Fluck
What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?
Author |
: Nina Morgan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2019-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351672627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351672622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies by : Nina Morgan
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.
Author |
: Rocío G. Davis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415641920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415641926 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transnationalism of American Culture by : Rocío G. Davis
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural productions, examining how they serve as ways of perceiving American culture. Visiting literature, film, and music, it considers how manifestations of American culture have traveled and what has happened to the texts in the process, including how they have been commodified.
Author |
: Kendall R. Phillips |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2011-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817356767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817356762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Memoryscapes by : Kendall R. Phillips
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
Author |
: Chiara De Cesari |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2014-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110359107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110359103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transnational Memory by : Chiara De Cesari
How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.