America.

Gilroy, Amanda.

America. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (293 pages) - European Views of the United States ; v. 8 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Table of Contents; Philip JOHN DAVIES, Preface; A List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies ; Acknowledgements ; Amand GILROY, Marietta MESSMER, Introduction; I WAR; Jenna PITCHFORD-HYDE, Invisible Warriors: Trauma and Ethics in the Narratives of the Iraq Wars. Angeliki TSETI, Photo-Textual Narratives, Shared Experiences: The Multidirectionality of Traumatic Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer's ""Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close""Lisa MARCHI, Postwar Dilemmas: Trauma, Illness, and the Ethics of Medical Care in Rabih Alameddine'sWriting; Nathalie KUROIWA-LEWIS, Invisible Scapegoats, Invisible Victims: President Obama's Rhetoric of Twenty-First Century War; Jelte OLTHOF, Sowing the Seeds of War: Conflict, Conciliatory Rhetoric, and the Legacy of Jefferson's Empire of Liberty in the Missouri Compromise Debate; II Conflict. Christine BOLD, Violence, Justice, and Indigeneity in the Popular West: Go-Won-Go Mohawk in Performance and PrintMatthew CARTER, "This Country's Hard on People": ""No Country for Old Men"" as Political Allegory of 9/11; György TÓTH, Performing 'the Spirit of '76': US Historical Memory and Countercommemorations for American Indian Sovereignty; Tim JELFS, "A different kind of action is necessary": Action, Violence, and the Post-9/11 United States in Nicholson Baker's ""Checkpoint"" Miroslaw Aleksander MIERNIK, "Everybody knows that the game was rigged": Protests against the War on Terror in the Work of Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and Tom WaitsIII Justice; Theresa SAXON, The Ghost Dance: (In)justice and Native American Performance; Maria-Sabina Draga ALEXANDRU, Media-Filtered Street Justice: New York and the Millennial Nomadic Ethical Turn; Jerzy DURCZAK, Still Lives: Junot Díaz's Recordings from the Inner City; Susann KOHLER, Growing Food and Justice in Detroit: Urban Gardens, Social Activism, and the Use of New Media. Delphine LETORT, Questioning the Jury System through Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's ""The Staircase"" (2008)William J. LEAHY, The Right to Counsel: An American Perspective and a Global Proposal; List of Contributors.



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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Congresses.
Indians of North America--Wars--Congresses.
Judicial power--United States--Congresses.


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