A Concise Companion to American Studies

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. * A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline * Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the "new" American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism * Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies * Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies