After American Studies - Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey (University of Puerto Rico) Herlihy-Mera, Herlihy-Mera Jeffrey
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138054059
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05405-9
• Pagine: 188
• Serie: Routledge Advances in American History; Routledge Advances in American History; Routledge Advances in American
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; 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