The International Turn in American Studies (Hardcover)

Contents: Marietta Messmer: Transcending Borders: The International Turn in American Studies ? Michael Boyden: The Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies Through the Lens of Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory ? Ricardo D. Salvatore: If Bolton Were to Awake Today: Early Efforts Towards a Comprehensive Hemispheric History of the Americas ? Jane C. Desmond: ≪And Never the Twain Shall Meet?≫: Considering the Legacies of Orientalism and Occidentalism for the Transnational Study of the U.S. ? Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Literary Studies in the Early Twenty-First Century: The View from the United States ? Josef Raab: Difference Matters: Toward an Inter-American Approach to ≪Race≫, Ethnicity, and Belonging ? Amos Nascimento: Inter-(African-Latin-)American: An Experiment in ≪Inter-Location≫ ? Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: Transnationality and Temporality in Early African American Texts ? Armin Paul Frank: A Rationale for a Comprehensive Study of the History of United States Literary Culture ? Daniel Goske: The Literary World in the ≪American Renaissance≫ and the International Context of American Studies ? Earl E. Fitz: Inter-American Studies as an Emerging Field: The Future of a Discipline ? Claudia Sadowski-Smith/Claire F. Fox: Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies ? Liam Kennedy: American Studies Without Tears, or What Does America Want?