Placing America : : American Culture and its Spaces /

Placing America : : American Culture and its Spaces / / 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, s...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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