Placing America
American Culture and its Spaces
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Placing America
Seiten 9 - 16 -
Constructing America from Afar
Performing America Abroad
Seiten 19 - 38 -
America, the Threat of Time
Seiten 39 - 54 -
Real Places and Imaginary Spaces
Setting the Scene
Seiten 57 - 74 -
Fallujah Manhattan Transfer
Seiten 75 - 90 -
There's No Place Like Fiction
Seiten 91 - 102 -
The Black Hole at the Heart of America?
Seiten 103 - 126 -
Drawing Borders
Meeting at the Border
Seiten 129 - 144 -
›Romanized Gauls‹
Seiten 145 - 158 -
Marginalized Cultural Spaces
Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Seiten 161 - 172 -
Getting a Name
Seiten 173 - 186 -
This Space Called Science:
Seiten 187 - 204 -
Contributors
Seiten 205 - 208 -
Index
Seiten 209 - 214
18 January 2013, 214 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2080-1
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