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| Title: | America in the Course of Human Events
: Presentations & Interpretations |
| Series: | (European Contributions to American Studies, Volume 63) |
| Author: | Josef Jarab & Marcel Arbeit & Jenel Virden (eds) |
| ISBN: | 9053839925 : 9789053839928 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 306 |
| Weight: | .604 Kg. |
| Published: | V U University Press - December 2006 |
| List Price: | 30.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | American studies |
It was to be expected that the European Association for American Studies Conference held in Prague in the spring of 2004 could not avoid debating the impact and the aftermath of 9/11 on American life, culture, and national mentality. The essays collected in this volume push through history testing some of the basic principles upon which America was founded and exists, but they also look back in an attempt to seek and reveal discernible agents behind the general reaction to the terrorist attack and the war on terror. One reiterated message of relevance in the contributions promulgates the difference between taking a critical stand and falling for dogmatic, cheap and undesirable anti-Americanism.
Introduction; American History: Varied Courses of Human Events -- Dedicated to a Proposition; How the Revolution Lost Its Political Meaning: Reflections on the Historiography of American Egalitarianism in the Aftermath of 9/11; Who Are These People? -- A Case Study of International Migration's Effects on European-American Relations; Memory and the Politics of Edward Said's Memoir Out of Place; US Foreign Policy and the Image of the United States; Turn-of-the-Century Judicial Activism: The Rehnquist Court as Political Agent; The Bush Administration, the Republicans, and Sexual Politics; American Culture and Literature: Icons and Plural Forms; America -- The Free City Upon a Hill Forever Under Siege: A European Perspective; Westward the Course: Nostalgia for Imperialism in American Gothic Culture; An American Who Wasn't an American: W H Auden; Women's Autobiographies: Twentieth-Century American Inscriptions; Trauma, Agency, Kitsch and the Excesses of the Real: Beloved Within the Field of Critical Response; Violence as a Means of Intercultural Communication in Recent Southern; Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in Fight Club; Buster Keaton and the South: The First Things and the Last; Exceptional Southern Animals Meet Joseph McCarthy: Pogo and Jeffersonian Democracy; The Acceptable Face of America: The Cultural Politics of the American National Portrait Gallery's Touring Exhibition Americans; The Confidence River: The Mississippi and "Its Inimitable Gothic Script".
