Placing America: American Culture and its SpacesMichael Fuchs, Maria-Theresia Holub transcript Verlag, 31.03.2014 - 214 Seiten 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. |
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REAL PLACES AND IMAGINARY SPACES | 55 |
DRAWING BORDERS | 127 |
MARGINALIZED CULTURAL SPACES | 159 |
Contributors | 205 |
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Alexie’s American culture American Studies anglophone Anne of Green Anne’s argues Atwood Avonlea Bad Cop becomes Bon Cop border Bouchard boundary Canada Canadian identity character colonized comic concept construction contemporary cool critical Danielewski Danielewski 2000 discourse DMZ’s Emily Emily’s English ethnic European fairies Fermilab fiction film francophone French ghost global Gothic Green Gables haunted highlights House of Leaves imagination Indian Karen L. M. Montgomery Landry Landry’s landscape language literature Manhattan Mason & Dixon Matty Roth metalepsis Montgomery myths Name City narrative Native Americans Navidson Record Norwegian novel one’s performance political popular culture postmodern protagonist Pynchon Quebec readers reality representation represents scientific sense Sherman Alexie Sigmund Skard social society space spatial stereotypes story symbolic tion transgression transnational Umney Umney’s Last United University of Graz University Press Ward Wind Woman Wood writing York Zampanò Zits