After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

ISBN-13: 9780367887100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Opis

This book is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotism. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms, the book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a scholarly paradigm.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Critique of Transnational Approaches to Community

1. The Ontology of Cultural Groups in Modernity

2. Place-Making

3. Literature as a Device of Cultural Appropriation

4. A Coda to Literary Canons

5. Art and Power

6. Forced Acculturation

7. Transmedia Storytelling

8. Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies

9. Imagining New Communities

O autorze

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico.