Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780748640492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 336 str.

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Transnationalism in Practice brings together fourteen essays written by Paul Giles between 1994 and 2009 on the subjects of American studies, literature and religion.
In an introduction written especially for the collection, Giles traces the evolution of critical transnationalism as it developed through the 1980s and 1990s. The volume includes "Reconstructing American Studies" (1994), one of the first articles to address the field from a transnational perspective, along with other pieces on methodological and practical issues surrounding the internationalization of American studies.
The essays on American literature contain work on Theodore Dreiser, Henry James and the critic F. O. Matthiessen, along with a new study of Jamaica Kincaid in relation to postcolonialism. The section on religion traces the circulation of secularized forms of Catholicism in U.S. culture, from nineteenth-century slave narratives to the musical performances of Bruce Springsteen.
Transnationalism in Practice ranges widely, from the culture of colonial America to the novels of Robert Coover and Kathy Acker, while also encompassing a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, from the presidency of George W. Bush to the role of religion in American society. This book will be of interest to all of those concerned with the place of U.S. culture in the world today.

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Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of Critical Transnationalism; 1. Reconstructing American Studies: Transnational Paradoxes, Comparative Perspectives (1994); 2. Transnationalism in Practice (2001); 3. Post-liberalism: George W. Bush and the Internationalization of American Studies (2004); 4. E Pluribus Multitudinum: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies (2005); 5. Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970-1997 (2007); 6. F. O. Matthiessen: Comparative Criticism and the Rhetoric of Violence (2001, revised 2009); 7. Henry James Athwart: Deterritorialization in The Sacred Fount (2003); 8. "The Magnet Attracting": Dreiser's Literary Style (2004); 9. The Literary Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (2005); 10. The Abjection of American Literature: Jamaica Kincaid and the Ghosts of Postcolonialism (2009); 11. Catholic Ideology and American Slave Narratives (1997); 13. The Intertextual Politics of Cultural Catholicism: Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese (1997); 13. "Like a Black Bell": Henry Carlile and the Negative Theology of Place (2007); 14. The Springsteen Affect: Religion in American Studies (2009); Index.