The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

A study of the American imaginary in transnational America.

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Other Authors: Voelz, Johannes (Editor), Saldívar, Ramón, 1949- (Editor), Bieger, Laura (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Imaginary and its Worlds: an Introduction / Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz
  • Literary Imaginaries. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America / Ramón Saldívar
  • The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary / Lawrence Buell
  • Imaginaries of American Modernism / Heinz Ickstadt
  • Social Imaginaries. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl
  • The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf
  • Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen
  • Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer
  • Political Imaginaries. Real Toads / Walter Benn Michaels
  • Obama Unwound: the Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise / Christopher Newfield
  • Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries / Donald E. Pease
  • Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as Transfer / Winfried Fluck.