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21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Günter Leypoldt
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Manfred Berg
(eds.)
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Ulfried Reichardt
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Regina Schober
(eds.)
Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
How has the quantified body become a central site of labor in the contemporary neoliberal age?
Subjects of Substance
Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Subjects of Substance reveals how the materiality of mind has shaped the works of authors like Don DeLillo, Siri Hustvedt, and David Foster Wallace.
Creating Realities
Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Erhan Simsek explores the motif of business and its aesthetic functions in American realism, naturalism, and modernism.
An Organon of Life Knowledge
Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
The short story as a tool for acquiring knowledge of and about life? This study offers a fresh take on the the genre and explores how it constructs and circulates `life knowledge'.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
Christa Buschendorf
(ed.)
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.