Post-Nationalist American Studies
Edited by John Carlos RowePost-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe
Syllabus: Comparative American Studies: An Introduction
Creating the Multicultural Nation: Adventures in Post-Nationalist American Studies in the 1990s / George J. Sanchez
Syllabus: Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity
Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies / Jay Mechling
Syllabus: (Re)Teaching the Civil Religion: Religion in American Lives
Foreign Affairs: Women, War, and the Pacific / Katherine Kinney
Syllabus: Pacific America: War, Memory, and Imagination
Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross-Cultural Communication / Steven Mailloux
Syllabus: Making Comparisons
Race, Nation, and Equality: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and a Genealogy of U.S. Mercantilism / David Kazanjian
Syllabus: Enclosing the "Open Sea": Race, Nation, Gender, and Equality in the Northern Atlantic
Joaquin Murrieta and the American 1848 / Shelley Streeby
Syllabus: 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and American Studies
My Border Stories: Life Narratives, Interdisciplinarity, and Post-Nationalism in Ethnic Studies / Barbara Brinson Curiel
Syllabus: Race and Gender in American Autobiography
How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture / Henry Yu
Syllabus: Buying and Selling the Exotic: Transnational Culture and Global History
List of Contributors
Index
University of California Press, Hardback, english, 258 pages