Placing America : : American Culture and its Spaces / / ed. by Maria-Theresia Holub, Michael Fuchs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Benea, Diana,; Drennig, Georg,; Fuchs, Michael,; Holub, Maria-Theresia,; Jahr, Ida,; Kohlenberger, Judith,; Lill, Julia van,; Lippert, Leopold,; Mayer, Evelyn P.,; Prodan, Madalina,; Thoss, Jeff,; Völkl, Yvonne,
• HerausgeberIn: Fuchs, Michael,; Holub, Maria-Theresia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Placing America --; Constructing America from Afar --; Performing America Abroad --; America, the Threat of Time --; Real Places and Imaginary Spaces --; Setting the Scene --; Fallujah Manhattan Transfer --; There’s No Place Like Fiction --; The Black Hole at the Heart of America? --; Drawing Borders --; Meeting at the Border --; ›Romanized Gauls‹ --; Marginalized Cultural Spaces --; Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon --; Getting a Name --; This Space Called Science: --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839420805; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744; 9783110401219
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839420805?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Maria-Theresia Holub, Michael Fuchs.

In »Call Me Ishmael«, Charles Olson exclaims »SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America«. Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the »city upon a hill« to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it.With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.