1st Edition
After American Studies Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Copyright 2018
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and... Read more
Introduction: A Critique of Transnational Approaches to Community
1. The Ontology of Cultural Groups in Modernity
2. Place-Making
3. Literature as a Device of Cultural Appropriation
4. A Coda to Literary Canons
5. Art and Power
6. Forced Acculturation
7. Transmedia Storytelling
8. Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies
9. Imagining New Communities
Biography
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico.
