The futures of American studies / edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman.

• Superior document: New Americanists
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Pease, Donald E.; Wiegman, Robyn.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; New Americanists.
• Physical Description: viii, 619 p.

Table of Contents

Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman -- What's in a name? / Jan Radway -- The international within the national : American studies and Asian American critique / Lisa Lowe -- The future in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the emergence of transnational American studies / Donald E. Pease -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American studies / John Carols Rowe -- Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller -- The humanities in the age of expressive individualism and cultural radicalism / Winfried Fluck -- Autobiographies of the ex-white men : why race is not a social construction / Walter Benn Michaels -- Color blindness and acting out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones -- Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity / Robyn Wiegman -- Identities and identity studies : reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The Hammer Man" / Lindon Barrett -- Hemisphere vertigo : Cuba, Quebec, and other provisional reconfigurations of "our" new America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- Marriage as treason : polygamy, nation and the novel / Nancy Bentley -- Litigious therapeutics : recovering the rights of children / Gillian Brown -- American studies in the "Age of the world picture" : thinking the question of language / William V. Spanos -- Work and culture in American studies / Michael Denning -- "Sent for you yesterday, here you come today" : American studies scholarship and the new social movements / George Lipsitz -- Toward a dialogics of international American culture studies : transnationality, border discourses, and public culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz -- American studies, American politics, and the reinvention of class / Paul Lauter -- The end of academia : the future of American studies / Eric Cheyfitz -- Nation dot com : American studies and the production of the corporatist citizen / Russ Castronovo -- ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson.