A Concise Companion To American Studies John Carlos Rowe by John Carlos Rowe 9781405109246, 9781444319071, 1405109246, 1444319078 instant download after payment.

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience.

• A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline
• Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism
• Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies
• Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies

Content:
Chapter 1 Puritan Origins (pages 17–35): Philip F. Gura
Chapter 2 Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies, 1851–1942 (pages 36–58): Michael A. Elliott
Chapter 3 The Laboring of American Culture (pages 59–73): Michael Denning
Chapter 4 Is Class an American Study? (pages 74–91): Paul Lauter
Chapter 5 Religious Studies (pages 92–123): Jay Mechling
Chapter 6 American Languages (pages 124–150): Joshua L. Miller
Chapter 7 Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies (pages 151–171): George Lipsitz
Chapter 8 Native American Studies (pages 172–189): John Gamber
Chapter 9 The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies (pages 190–209): Richard T. Rodriguez
Chapter 10 African American Studies (pages 210–228): Jared Sexton
Chapter 11 Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique (pages 229–244): Lisa Lowe
Chapter 12 Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance (pages 245–262): Harilaos Stecopoulos
Chapter 13 Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition (pages 263–283): Donald Pease
Chapter 14 Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization (pages 284–302): John Carlos Rowe
Chapter 15 Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett's “The Foreigner” and the Spanish?American War (pages 303–319): Rebecca Walsh
Chapter 16 The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies (pages 320–333): David E. Nye
Chapter 17 The World Wide Web and Digital Culture: New Borders, New Media, New American Studies (pages 334–349): Matthias Oppermann
Chapter 18 Regionalism (pages 351–368): Kevin R. McNamara
Chapter 19 The West and Manifest Destiny (pages 369–386): Deborah L. Madsen
Chapter 20 Canadian Studies and American Studies (pages 387–406): Alyssa MacLean
Chapter 21 The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom (pages 407–431): Henry A. Giroux
Chapter 22 Popular, Mass, and High Culture (pages 432–452): Shelley Streeby