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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fuchs, Michael[Herausgeber]
• Holub, Maria-Theresia[Herausgeber]

Titel

Placing America : American Culture and its Spaces

Ist Teil von

• American Culture Studies : 3

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Proceedings of international conference "Space, Place, and Time: The Construction of Identity in American Literature and Political Culture," held in Graz, Austria, in December 2010.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Placing America 9 Performing America Abroad 19 America, the Threat of Time 39 Setting the Scene 57 Fallujah Manhattan Transfer 75 There's No Place Like Fiction 91 The Black Hole at the Heart of America? 103 Meeting at the Border 129 ›Romanized Gauls‹ 145 Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon 161 Getting a Name 173 This Space Called Science: 187 Contributors 205 Index 209
• In »Call Me Ishmael«, Charles Olson exclaims »SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America«. Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the »city upon a hill« to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.
• »The ongoing discussion of spaces and spatiality as well as of the opposition of space and place are certainly enriched by this volume, which offers new insight into a complex topic and features innovative, substantial, and inspiring essays.« Katharina Christ, Amerikastudien, 60 (2016)
• Michael Fuchs (Dr. phil., University of Graz) teaches American literature and media studies at the University of Graz. His research interests include horror and adult cinema, digital media, comics and graphic novels, and transmedia storytelling.
• Maria-Theresia Holub (PhD, SUNY Binghamton) is a research and teaching associate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz. Her specialization lies in the field of Postcolonial Studies, Border and Migrant Literatures, and Feminist Theory.
• English