Beschreibung:
"A rich and multifaceted assessment of the field. By interspersing chapters that focus in great detail on a single aspect of American Studies with broader chapters that help contextualize his arguments, Lauter has provided readers with a remarkably thorough, exciting, and satisfying work."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
Part I: Practicing American Studies>1. Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies2. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class3. Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies>4. Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook5. Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park>Part II: American Studies in a Racialized World6. American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads>7. Of Chodors and Capital8. Fiction as Politics: The Novels of Charles ChesnuttPart III: Revisiting the Canon: The Question of Modernism