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Title: |
Transnational America |
| Sub-title: |
Contours of Modern US Culture |
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| Edited by: |
Russell Duncan, Clara Juncker |
| ISBN10-13: |
8772899581 : 9788772899589 |
| Illustrations: |
colour & b/w photos |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
276 |
| Weight: |
.540 Kg. |
| Published: |
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK) - September 2004 |
| List Price: |
28.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Regional studies : History of the Americas : 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 : Cultural studies : Globalization : USA |
| This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between today's globalisation and Americanisation. Transnationalism involves a loosening of boundaries, a deterritorialisation of the nation-state, and higher degrees of interconnectedness among cultures and peoples across the globe. As people make transnational voyages and live lives of flexible citizenship in two or more cultures, they adhere to a new type of nationalism that creates an exclusionist discourse and builds the Other as conservative defenders of cruder territorial loyalties. This transnational solidarity -- a new communitarianism beyond the loyalties to any one place or ethnic group -- threatens the old order with its conceptions that assimilation and integration will remake the foreigner into a particular national citizen. The authors address the complex issues of globalisation, American mythology, Christian proselytising, modern slavery, conspiracy theory, apocalyptic terrorism, Vietnam stories, international feminism, changing gender roles, resurgent regionalism and the changing definitions of place. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Americanisation and Globalisation; The Future of the Past: Christian Cultural Reproduction; National History/Transnational Themes: Inaugural Addresses and American Mythology; Trading People: Slavery and Migration in the 21st Century; Conspiracy Theories in America: Two Approaches; The Image of Terror/Terrorism of Images in Leviathan and Mao II; Not a Story to Pass on?: Tim O'Brien's Vietnam; Framing Hillary Rodham Clinton; Woman's Place in a New World: Scandinavian-American Visions, 1850-1900; Muhammad Ali, Southerner; The Transnational Turn in the South: Region, Nation, Globalisation; Crossing Borders: Hispanic Atlanta, 1990-2004; Nordicities, or the American City in Canada. |
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