Transnational American Memories (eBook)

Udo Hebel (Herausgeber)

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2009
467 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-022421-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as international sites of memory.

Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.

Autor

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Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 2
Contents 6
Introduction 10
Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth 20
Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier 42
Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez’s Disease Narrative 68
Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters 88
Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk 114
Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty’s Autobiographical Writing 138
Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated 154
Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo 180
Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I 194
“Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France”: Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers 224
Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory 252
Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War 276
Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero 294
(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago’s World’s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory 320
Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. 342
Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley 360
“A Lens into What It Means to Be an American”: African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory 386
Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century 414
Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century 434
Commentary Epilogue 456
Notes on Contributors 462

Rezensionen

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"This, then, is a rich and varied and highly stimulating volume."
Chris Saunders in 12/2 (2011)

"Transnational American Memories is an ambitious book which unites concepts of Memory Studies with those of transnational American Studies. [...] The innovative contributions succeed in bringing Memory Studies beyond the focus on local or national sites without losing the idea of American national identity formation. Thus the book becomes particularly useful for scholars of American Studies, and those who focus on Memory Studies will find many turns and conclusions of the texts surprising and enriching."
Andrea Zittlau in: KULT online 27/2011

"Transnational American Memories is an extremely valuable addition to the innovative “Media and Cultural Memory” series [...]: It provides a broad overview over the current scholarship and gives a glimpse of the transnational future of memory studies."
Kathleen Loock in: Amerikastudien/ American Studies 3/2009

"[...] this is a rich, thoughtful, and thought-provoking collection – very competently edited and handsomely produced. It will prove an important resource for students and scholars of Amercian literature, history, and culture; and it is also of considerable interest to students and teachers of postcolonial literature and narrative theory."
Jakob Lothe in: American Studies in Scandinavia, Vol. 42, 4/ 2010

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
• Zusatzinfo: 35 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American Memories • Amerika • Commemorative Identity Construction • Cultural Memory • Erinnerungskultur • Gedenkpolitik • Identitätskonstruktion • Kulturelles Gedächtnis • Politics of Remembrance
• ISBN-10: 3-11-022421-6 / 3110224216
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-022421-4 / 9783110224214