States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807859850 ISBN 13 : 9780807859858

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

The contributors to this volume argue that for too long, inclusiveness has substituted for methodology in American studies scholarship. The ten original essays collected here call for a robust comparativism that is attuned theoretically to questions of both space and time.

States of Emergency asks readers to engage in a thought experiment: imagine that you have an object you want to study. Which methodologies will contextualize and explain your selection? What political goals are embedded in your inquiry? This thought experiment is taken up by contributors who consider an array of objects -- the weather, cigarettes, archival material, AIDS, the enemy, extinct species, and torture. The essayists recalibrate the metrics of time and space usually used to measure these questions. In the process, each contributes to a project that redefines the object of American studies, reading its history as well as its future across, against, even outside the established grain of interdisciplinary practice.

Contributors:
Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
Ian Baucom, Duke University
Chris Castiglia, The Pennsylvania State University
Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susan Gillman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rodrigo Lazo, University of California, Irvine
Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kenneth W. Warren, University of Chicago

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Susan Gillman is professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807859850
• ISBN 13: 9780807859858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Gillman Susan
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