Reihe: American Culture Studies
Death is Served
The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
- Castelli, Stella
An investigation framing American culture's hunger for death as repetitive encoding across serial media.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. February 2023
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
- Leypoldt, Günter
- Berg, Manfred
- (eds.)
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2023
Culture^2
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
- Kelleter, Frank
- Starre, Alexander
- (eds.)
In fifteen lively and stimulating essays centered on critical key works, Culture^2 reflects on how to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2022
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Sawallisch, Nele
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2022
Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
- Heinze, Rüdiger
This work provides an extensive, comparative discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants from different ethnic groups and different historical contexts.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2022
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
- Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam
How do biology and culture interact? This book provides an extensive cultural analysis of biohacking and Do-it-yourself medicine.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. November 2021
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
- Spieler, Sophie
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Juni 2021
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
- Buschendorf, Christa
- (ed.)
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
American Mobilities
Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
- Leyda, Julia
Geographical, economic, and social mobility were central tropes in American literature and film in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This study provides in-depth case studies with particular attention to class, race, and gender as they intersect with representations of mobility.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
The Myths That Made America
An Introduction to American Studies
- Paul, Heike
Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. August 2014