Transnational America: Contours Of Modern US Culture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8772899581 ISBN 13 : 9788772899589

Editeur : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004

Synopsis

This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between today's globalisation and Americanisation. Transnationalism involves a loosening of boundaries, a deterritorialisation of the nation-state, and higher degrees of interconnectedness among cultures and peoples across the globe. As people make transnational voyages and live lives of flexible citizenship in two or more cultures, they adhere to a new type of nationalism that creates an exclusionist discourse and builds the Other as conservative defenders of cruder territorial loyalties. This transnational solidarity -- a new communitarianism beyond the loyalties to any one place or ethnic group -- threatens the old order with its conceptions that assimilation and integration will remake the foreigner into a particular national citizen. The authors address the complex issues of globalisation, American mythology, Christian proselytising, modern slavery, conspiracy theory, apocalyptic terrorism, Vietnam stories, international feminism, changing gender roles, resurgent regionalism and the changing definitions of place.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clara Juncker is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include American Literature, Women's Studies, and Transnational Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8772899581
• ISBN 13: 9788772899589
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Éditeur: Duncan Russell, Juncker Clara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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