"Cultural Vistas and Sites of Identity. Essays on Literature, Film and American Studies" by Reka M. Cristian reflects on an array of American identities assembled in a heterogeneous compilation of New American Studies through examples taken from literature ("Getting Home Alive" by Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales, "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" by Edward Albee, "How I Learned to Drive" by Paula Vogel) and film ("The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Frida" and "Babel").

Reka M. Cristian is Associate Professor of American Studies at the...