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  1. Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen

    The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is... more

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    The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of "Junkspace" define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783772057519
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    Edition: 1st ed
    Series: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) ; 148
    Subjects: Amerikanische Literatur; Film; Architektur; Vorstadt; Amerika; American literature; Architecture; Suburb; America; Vorort <Motiv>; Film; Architektur <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (228 Seiten)
    Notes:

    [1. Auflage]

  2. Lecturas y ediciones de crónicas de Indias
    una propuesta interdisciplinar ; Quinto Congreso Internacional de edición y anotación de textos, patrocionado por la Universidad de Navarra y el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2-4 de diciembre de 2002)
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Iberoamericana, Madrid ; Vervuert, Frankfurt a. M.

    Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 8484891232; 3865271022
    RVK Categories: IO 2445 ; NN 1730
    Subjects: America; Latin America; Latin America; Spain
    Scope: 500 S, Tab., Faks
  3. <<Las>> lenguas de las Américas
    = <<The>> languages of the Americas
    Contributor: Danler, Paul (Publisher); Harjus, Jannis (Publisher)
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Logos, Berlin

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Danler, Paul (Publisher); Harjus, Jannis (Publisher)
    Language: English; German; Spanish; Portuguese; French
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783832552794; 3832552790
    Other identifier:
    9783832552794
    DDC Categories: 400
    Other subjects: America; Linguistics; Romance Studies; English Studies; Amerindian Languages; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 385 Seiten, Diagramme, Karten, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Enthält Literaturangaben

  4. Music and power in early modern Spain
    harmonic spheres of influence
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator. Music and Power in... more

     

    "This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator. Music and Power in Early Modern Spain is a useful tool for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in musicology, music history, Spanish literature, cultural studies, and transatlantic studies in the early modern period"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032053585; 9781032053561
    Series: New interdisciplinary approaches to early modern culture: confluences and contexts
    Subjects: Spanien; Sphärenharmonie; Literatur; Geschichte 1450-1650; ; Spanien; Musik; Katholische Kirche; Geschichte 1450-1650;
    Other subjects: Music / Political aspects / Spain / History / 16th century; Music / Political aspects / Spain / History / 17th century; Music and literature / Spain / History / 16th century; Music and literature / Spain / History / 17th century; Spain / Colonies / America; Harmony of the spheres; Harmony of the spheres; Music and literature; Music / Political aspects; Spanish colonies; America; Spain; 1500-1699; History
    Scope: xi, 163 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction. Music and Myth from Orpheus to Tubal -- Songs in the Key of Spain : Vihuela and the Ideology of Musical Humanism -- Cervantes Off-Key : Irony and Imperialism in the Novelas ejemplares -- Pre-Columbian Providentialism : Musical Origins in Andean Imagination -- The King's Polyphony and the Composing of the Americas -- Four-Part Harmony for the Four-Part Empire : Calderón's Musical Metaphors at the Court of Philip IV -- Immaculate Composition: Religion, Race, and Propaganda -- Conclusion. Orpheus Looking Back

  5. Belonging and narrative
    a theory of the American novel
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Germany

    Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives.... more

     

    Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839446003
    Other identifier:
    DDC Categories: 810
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: America; American Novel; American Studies; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Literature; Space and Place
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (179 Seiten), Illustration
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    Habilitationsschrift, Freie Universität Berlin, 2013

  6. Indo-Caribbean feminist thought
    genealogies, theories, enactments
    Contributor: Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela (Publisher); Outar, Lisa (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging... more

     

    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Lisa Outar, “Introduction: Interrogating an Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology” -- Part 1: Tracing the Emergence of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Perspectives -- Patricia Mohammed, “A Vindication for Indo-Caribbean Feminism” -- Preeia D. Surajbali, “Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A Personal and Scholarly Journey” -- Andil Gosine, “My Mother’s Baby: Wrecking Work after Indentureship” -- Part 2: Transgressive Storytelling -- Alison Klein, “‘Seeing Greater Distances’: An Interview with Peggy Mohan on the Voyages of Indo-Caribbean Women” -- Anita Baksh,“Indentureship, Land, and Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in the Literature of Rajkumari Singh and Mahadai Das” -- Lisa Outar, “Post-Indentureship Cosmopolitan Feminism: Indo-Caribbean and Indo-Mauritian Women’s Writing and the Public Sphere”--

     

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    Contributor: Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela (Publisher); Outar, Lisa (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781349720361; 9781137570796
    RVK Categories: HQ 7085 ; HQ 7040 ; LB 44640
    Edition: First softcover printing
    Series: New Caribbean Studies
    Subjects: Culture; Literature, Modern; America; Sex (Psychology); Gender expression; Gender identity; Literature.; Literature; Sociology; Literature; Sociology.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature—Philosophy.; Culture—Study and teaching.; America—Literatures.
    Scope: xiii, 349 Seiten, Illustrationen
  7. American Mobilities : Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
    Author: Leyda, Julia
    Published: 20160215
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility – social, economic, geographic – in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of »domestic«, referring to both... more

     

    American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility – social, economic, geographic – in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of »domestic«, referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the »American« century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.

     

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  8. The Myths That Made America : An Introduction to American Studies
    Author: Paul, Heike
    Published: 20140815
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas... more

     

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839414859
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; America; Culture; Myth; Literature; History; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Introduction; Christopher Columbus; Melting pot; Puritans
  9. Lone Star Texas : Ethnographische Notizen aus einem unbekannten Land
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    »Wir verstehen die Amerikaner nicht mehr« - diese im Gefolge von 9/11 und dem Irakkrieg oft vernehmbare Äußerung motiviert dazu, mit feldforschendem Blick amerikanische Alltagspraktiken in Augenschein zu nehmen - in seinem symbolischen Zentrum: dem... more

     

    »Wir verstehen die Amerikaner nicht mehr« - diese im Gefolge von 9/11 und dem Irakkrieg oft vernehmbare Äußerung motiviert dazu, mit feldforschendem Blick amerikanische Alltagspraktiken in Augenschein zu nehmen - in seinem symbolischen Zentrum: dem Bundesstaat Texas. Die USA haben sich in den letzten zehn Jahren und insbesondere durch die (Wieder-)Wahl von Präsident George W. Bush zunehmend »texanisiert«, sowohl in der Fremdwahrnehmung als auch in der Diskussion um Identität innerhalb der USA. Texas wird in den europäischen Medien als »Hort des Bösen« repräsentiert. Dieses Buch bietet eine Innensicht des großen Bundesstaates, indem verschiedene Aspekte der Alltagskultur - vom Umgang mit Landschaft und den Ernährungsgewohnheiten über die Waffenkultur bis hin zum Nationalheiligtum »Alamo« - näher vorgestellt und in Beziehung zu Konzeptionen von Individuum, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, Staat und Nation gesetzt werden. Der Autor lebte zwei Jahre in Texas und führte dort eine ethnologische Feldforschung zum Thema »Texanische Identität« durch.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839406960; 9783899426960
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Texas; Gesellschaft; Identität; Symbole; Körper; Nordamerika; Amerika; Kultur; Ethnologie; Kulturanthropologie; Society; Body; America; Culture; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  10. Ästhetik der Immersion : Raum-Erleben zwischen Welt und Bild. Las Vegas, Washington und die White City
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Die Ästhetik der Immersion ist eine Ästhetik des Eintauchens, des kalkulierten Auflösens von Distanz. Die Räume, in die diese Studie sich begibt, machen Grenzverwischungen zwischen Bild und Welt zum Gegenstand unmittelbaren körperlichen Erlebens. Sie... more

     

    Die Ästhetik der Immersion ist eine Ästhetik des Eintauchens, des kalkulierten Auflösens von Distanz. Die Räume, in die diese Studie sich begibt, machen Grenzverwischungen zwischen Bild und Welt zum Gegenstand unmittelbaren körperlichen Erlebens. Sie sind ein so bedeutsamer Teil zeitgenössischer Lebenswelt, weil in ihnen kollektive Realitätsphantasien an einem 'wirklichen, wirksamen Ort' (Foucault) erfahrbar werden. Ein solcher Ort ist das 'neue' Las Vegas. In seiner jüngsten Metamorphose von der Neon- zur Themenarchitektur hat er seinen Avantgardestatus nicht verloren, sondern sich in der materiellen Rückübersetzung digitaler Bild-Räumlichkeit einmal mehr zum Vorreiter kultureller Entwicklungen aufgeschwungen.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839407363; 9783899427363
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Ästhetische Erfahrung; Architektur; Urban Studies; Las Vegas; Washington; White City; Stadt; Raum; Bild; Bildwissenschaft; Amerika; Kunstwissenschaft; Architecture; Urbanity; Space; Image; Visual Studies; America; Fine Arts
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (266 p.)
  11. Wie Katie Tingle sich weigerte, ordentlich zu posieren und Walker Evans darüber nicht grollte : Eine kritische Bildbetrachtung sozialdokumentarischer Fotografie
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Das Buch bietet eine gut belegte und historisch sowie auch medientheoretisch kontextualisierte Auseinandersetzung mit einem klassischen »Text« aus der Geschichte der sozialdokumentarischen Fotografie (»Let us now praise famous men«). Mit den Mitteln... more

     

    Das Buch bietet eine gut belegte und historisch sowie auch medientheoretisch kontextualisierte Auseinandersetzung mit einem klassischen »Text« aus der Geschichte der sozialdokumentarischen Fotografie (»Let us now praise famous men«). Mit den Mitteln einer sehr detaillierten und »dichten« Beschreibung der Fotografien Walker Evans' werden die von Evans vor dem Hintergrund sozialemanzipatorischer Bestrebungen vorgenommenen Manipulationen der vorgefundenen Wirklichkeit dekonstruiert. Das Buch vermittelt zudem einen Einblick in die Konstruktion sozialer Differenzierung im Sinne eines Angebots zur nationalen Identitätsfindung.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839404362; 9783899424362
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Fotografie; Medien; Amerika; Dokumentarismus; Fotojournalismus; Analoge Medien; Medientheorie; Cultural Studies; Medienwissenschaft; Photography; Media; America; Analogue Media; Media Theory; Media Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (190 p.)
  12. Extraordinary Partnerships : How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America
    Contributor: Henseler, Christine (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Lever Press

    This inspirative and hopeful collection demonstrates that the arts and humanities are entering a renaissance that stands to change the direction of our communities. Community leaders, artists, educators, scholars, and professionals from many fields... more

     

    This inspirative and hopeful collection demonstrates that the arts and humanities are entering a renaissance that stands to change the direction of our communities. Community leaders, artists, educators, scholars, and professionals from many fields show how they are creating responsible transformations through partnership in the arts and humanities. The diverse perspectives that come together in this book teach us how to perceive our lives and our disciplines through a broader context. The contributions exemplify how individuals, groups, and organizations use artistic and humanistic principles to explore new structures and novel ways of interacting to reimagine society. They refresh and reinterpret the ways in which we have traditionally assigned space and value to the arts and humanities.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Henseler, Christine (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: The arts: general issues; Education
    Other subjects: arts; humanities; America
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (418 p.)
  13. Rapocalypse : Der Anfang des Rap und das Ende der Welt
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    »I understand that time is running out« - Wenn man den Texten vieler afro-amerikanischer Rapper glauben will, steht das Ende der Welt unmittelbar bevor. Woher rührt diese Faszination für die Apokalypse? Was beschreiben diese Untergangsszenarien, und... more

     

    »I understand that time is running out« - Wenn man den Texten vieler afro-amerikanischer Rapper glauben will, steht das Ende der Welt unmittelbar bevor. Woher rührt diese Faszination für die Apokalypse? Was beschreiben diese Untergangsszenarien, und zu welchem Zweck? Das Buch stellt die erste umfassende Studie zu apokalyptischen Motiven im US-amerikanischen HipHop dar. Zugleich verfolgt es die Entstehung dieser Kunstform von den Spirituals über die Rhetorik afroamerikanischer Prediger bis hin zu Blues und Reggae. Die Geschichte vom Ende der Welt ist so zugleich die Geschichte vom Anfang des Rap - »Time's done run out!«

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839406083; 9783899426083
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Rap; Apokalypse; Afroamerikaner; Geschichte; HipHop; Musik; Popkultur; Amerika; Popmusik; Cultural Studies; Kulturwissenschaft; Music; Popular Culture; America; Pop Music
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (282 p.)
  14. Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or... more

     

    Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839445020; 9783837645026
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration
    Other subjects: Black Canada; 19th Century; Slave Narrative; Life Writing; Borders; Literary History; Literature; America; Cultural History; American Studies; Migration; Literary Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
  15. Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been... more

     

    In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839440452; 9783837640458
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; US-America; Immigration; 2nd Generation Immigrants; Children of Immigrants; America; Migration; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)
  16. Hemispheric American studies
    Contributor: Levander, Caroline Field (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Levander, Caroline Field (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780813542225; 0813542227; 9780813542232; 0813542235
    Other identifier:
    007012715
    RVK Categories: HR 1080 ; HR 1600
    Subjects: Ethnic groups in literature; Migrations of nations; American literature; Latin American literature; America; America; America; Western Hemisphere; America; United States
    Scope: VII, 356 S., Ill.
  17. Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself : The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«.... more

     

    From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839460047; 9783837660043
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Political science & theory; Medicine: general issues
    Other subjects: Culture; Representation; Biology; Medicine; Biocultures; Biohacking; Biotechnology; Cultural Narratives; DIY; America; Body; Biopolitics; American Studies; Life Sciences; Cultural Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (314 p.)
  18. The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations,... more

     

    How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.

     

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  19. New World of wonders
    European images of the Americas, 1492-1700 ; [published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Oct. 8, 1992-Mar. 6, 1993]
    Contributor: Doggett, Rachel (Publisher)
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, Wash. [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Doggett, Rachel (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0295972475
    RVK Categories: NN 1730
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: 176 S., Ill., Kt., 28 cm
  20. Dreaming America
    obsession and transcendence in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates
    Author: Waller, Gary
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, La. [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0807104787
    RVK Categories: HU 4609 ; HU 4608
    Subjects: Array; History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; In literature
    Scope: XII, 224 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 221 - 224

  21. Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.
    Spaces, Communities, Representations
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839431115
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    RVK Categories: MS 1235 ; MS 1750 ; RU 10909
    DDC Categories: 300
    Edition: 1. Aufl
    Series: Urban Studies
    Subjects: America; American Culture; American Literature; Cities; City; Cultural Geography; Social Geography; Sociology; Urban Studies; USA.; Amerikabild; Literatur; Stadtentwicklung; Soziokultureller Wandel; Stadt <Motiv>; Stadt
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  22. Poets of Protest
    Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld

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    ISBN: 9783839437452
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    RVK Categories: GL 1503
    Series: American Culture Studies ; Band 18
    Subjects: America; American History; American Studies; Antebellum America; Cultural Studies; Culture; Heinrich Heine; Karl Gutzkow; Literary Studies; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; National Identity; Politics; Vormärz Germany; William Wells Brown; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>; Deutsch; Mythologie; Mythos <Motiv>; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864): The scarlet letter; Gutzkow, Karl (1811-1878): Wally, die Zweiflerin; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856): Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen; Brown, William Wells (1815-1884): Clotel, or the President's daughter
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  23. Sounds of a New Generation
    On Contemporary Jewish-American Literature
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld

    This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it... more

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    This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it becaus

     

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  24. American Structuralism
    Published: [2017]; © 1981
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin ;Boston

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783110879285
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    Edition: Reprint 2017
    Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Maior ; 102
    Subjects: America; English; Structure; Strukturalismus; Strukturelle Linguistik; Geschichte
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  25. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden
    U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
    Published: [2010]; © 2010
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man’s Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s... more

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    During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man’s Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. Gretchen Murphy explores this tension embedded in the notion of the white man’s burden to create a new historical frame for understanding race and literature in America.Shadowing the White Man’s Burden maintains that literature symptomized and channeled anxiety about the racial components of the U.S. world mission, while also providing a potentially powerful medium for multiethnic authors interested in redrawing global color lines. Through a range of archival materials from literary reviews to diplomatic records to ethnological treatises, Murphy identifies a common theme in the writings of African-, Asian- and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity through narratives about a multiracial U.S. empire. Shadowing the White Man’s Burden situates American literature in the context of broader race relations, and provides a compelling analysis of the way in which literature came to define and shape racial attitudes for the next century

     

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    ISBN: 9780814759592
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    Series: America and the Long 19th Century ; 24
    Subjects: America; Gretchen; Murphy; burden; create; embedded; explores; frame; historical; literature; mans; notion; race; tension; this; understanding; white; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; American fiction; American fiction; Imperialism in literature; Race in literature; Racism in literature
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