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Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The essays collected here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected
Language: en
Pages: 437
Pages: 437
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-14 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the dis
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called Ame
Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
The America that seems to be disappearing before our very eyes is, George Lipsitz argues, actually the cumulative creation of yesterday's struggles over identit
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Routledge
Contributors to the collection examine literary, historical, and cultural examples from the 19th century to the 21st. They explore notions of the common--namely