William V. Spanos (Author)
William Spanos is Distinguished Professor of English at Binghamton University, SUNY.
Donald E. Pease (Foreword By)
Donald E. Pease is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
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William V. Spanos: Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold …
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Donald E. Pease: Theodor Geisel
Dr. Seuss’s infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ha …
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Donald E. Pease: Theodor Geisel
Dr. Seuss’s infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ha …
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William V. Spanos: Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold …
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Donald E. Pease: National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives
National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national commun …
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Russ Castronovo: Necro Citizenship
In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to-and even dependent on-death. Deploying an impressive range …
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Paul Gilmore: Genuine Article
In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the …
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Sharon Patricia Holland: Raising the Dead
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that bla …
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June Howard: Publishing the Family
In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth c …
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Paul Lauter: From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on …
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John Limon: Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America
Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond …
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Sean McCann: Gumshoe America
In Gumshoe America Sean Mc Cann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart …
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Patrick O’Donnell: Latent Destinies
Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold W …
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Cyrus R. K. Patell: Negative Liberties
Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the Unite …
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Robert Seguin: Around Quitting Time
Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that hav …
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Mason Stokes: Color of Sex
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremaci …
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Gayle Wald: Crossing the Line
As W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet …
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Patricia P. Chu: Assimilating Asians
One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it me …
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Priscilla Wald: Constituting Americans
Ever since the founders drafted "We the People, " "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be Americ …
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Alan Nadel: Containment Culture
Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American p …
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Elaine K. Ginsberg: Passing and the Fictions of Identity
Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white …
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Dana D. Nelson: National Manhood
National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an e …
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Robert J. Corber: In the Name of National Security
In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to po …
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Robert J. Corber: Homosexuality in Cold War America
Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert …
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Donald E. Pease: Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon
Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstr …
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Paul Allen Anderson: Deep River
"The American Negro, " Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "must remake his past in order to make his future." Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inh …
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E. San Juan Jr.: Racism and Cultural Studies
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmat …
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Chadwick Allen: Blood Narrative
Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians-groups who share much in their responses to Eur …
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Kate A. Baldwin: Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors-and on twentieth-century American debates about race-Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curt …
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Russ Castronovo & Dana D. Nelson: Materializing Democracy
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis …
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Paul Giles: Virtual Americas
Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of we …
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Elizabeth McHenry: Forgotten Readers
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry Mc Millan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. …
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Donald E. Pease & Robyn Wiegman: Futures of American Studies
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative in …
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Jay Grossman: Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of the …
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Daniel T. O’Hara: Empire Burlesque
Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impa …
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Catherine A. John: Clear Word and Third Sight
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared co …
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Joel Pfister: Individuality Incorporated
Spanning the 1870s to the present, Individuality Incorporated demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, …
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Deborah Cohn & Jon Smith: Look Away!
Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States-including …
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Scott Trafton: Egypt Land
Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the Ameri …
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Stacey Margolis: Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in ter …
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Gretchen Murphy: Hemispheric Imaginings
In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for demo …
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Michelle Ann Stephens: Black Empire
In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of "transnational blackness" that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twen …
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Brian Edwards: Morocco Bound
Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." …
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Leerom Medovoi: Rebels
Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean-these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were ofte …
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Ramon Saldivar: Borderlands of Culture
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Americo Paredes (1915-1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and an …
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Caroline Levander: Cradle of Liberty
Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American …
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Sean Kicummah Teuton: Red Land, Red Power
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power, " an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton c …
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Christopher Castiglia: Interior States
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into acco …
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Laura Lomas: Translating Empire
In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empir …
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David Luis-Brown: Waves of Decolonization
In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, …
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Joel Pfister: Yale Indian
Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884-1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival research …
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Hamilton Carroll: Affirmative Reaction
Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama 24 to …
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Jose David Saldivar & Jose David Saldivar: Trans-Americanity
A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing …
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