Living American Studies
Banerjee, Mita / Birkle, Carmen / Höttges, Bärbel / Siebald, Manfred / Waller, Nicole
As a discipline, American Studies has certainly been one of the most dynamic fields not only of research but also of teaching. This volume argues that one reason for this dynamism lies in the refusal of American Studies practitioners, both in the U.S. and around the globe, to separate life from art and criticism. Fields such as postmodernism, life writing, ethnic studies, or ecocriticism derive their potential precisely from the politicized in...