
Hemispheric American Studies
Rutgers University Press
Will be published approx. on 4. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-0-8135-4223-2 (ISBN)
Description
This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas? What happens if we recognize the nation as historically evolving and contingent rather than already formed? Finally, what happens if the "fixed" borders of a nation are recognized not only as historically produced political constructs but also as component parts of a deeper, more multilayered series of national and indigenous histories?
With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.
With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.
Reviews / Votes
These superb essays represent cutting edge contributions to the burgeoning field of transnational and hemispheric studies, and expand its scholarship by offering new ways in which scholars might refocus, from the national to the hemispheric and global. This collection's aim to decenter American Studies is an imperative to the evolution of the field. - Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Ideas and Society at the Univer)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
17 images
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-4223-2 (9780813542232)
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Persons
Caroline F. Levander is a professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She is the author of Cradles of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois; Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; and the coeditor of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers University Press).
Robert S. Levine is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville, and the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader.
Robert S. Levine is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville, and the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader.
Content
Introduction / Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield
1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory / JEFF SMITH
2 Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete / ERICA SHEEN
3 'A Living Part of the Class Struggle": Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left / FRANK KRUTNIK
4 A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films / PETER STANFIELD
5 The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless / DOUG DIBBERN
6 Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film / SEAN MCCANN
7 Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left / WILL STRAW
8 Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "Naked" City / REBECCA PRIME
9 The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / JENNIFER LANGDON-TECLAW
10 The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism / ART SIMON
11 Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen / BRIAN NEVE
12 Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950's / STEVE NEALE
13 Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA / MARK SHIEL
14 Red Hollywood / THOM ANDERSEN
Afterword THOM ANDERSEN
Acknowledgments
Notes
Notes on the Contributors
Index
1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory / JEFF SMITH
2 Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete / ERICA SHEEN
3 'A Living Part of the Class Struggle": Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left / FRANK KRUTNIK
4 A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films / PETER STANFIELD
5 The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless / DOUG DIBBERN
6 Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film / SEAN MCCANN
7 Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left / WILL STRAW
8 Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "Naked" City / REBECCA PRIME
9 The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / JENNIFER LANGDON-TECLAW
10 The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism / ART SIMON
11 Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen / BRIAN NEVE
12 Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950's / STEVE NEALE
13 Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA / MARK SHIEL
14 Red Hollywood / THOM ANDERSEN
Afterword THOM ANDERSEN
Acknowledgments
Notes
Notes on the Contributors
Index