After American Studies - Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey (University of Puerto Rico) Herlihy-Mera, Herlihy-Mera Jeffrey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138054059
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05405-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Advances in American History; Routledge Advances in American History; Routledge Advances in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Urban communities