Placing America : American culture and its spaces /
Michael Fuchs, Maria-Theresia Holub (editions.).
- Bielefeld : Transcript, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations
- American studies ; volume 3 .
Proceedings of international conference "Space, Place, and Time: The Construction of Identity in American Literature and Political Culture," held in Graz, Austria, in December 2010.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Placing America / Performing America Abroad / America, the Threat of Time / Setting the Scene / Fallujah Manhattan Transfer / There's No Place Like Fiction / The Black Hole at the Heart of America? / Meeting at the Border / : omanized Gauls9 / Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon / Getting a Name / This Space Called Science: / Contributors -- Index. Holub, Maria-Theresia -- Lippert, Leopold -- Jahr, Ida -- Lill, Julia van -- Drennig, Georg -- Thoss, Jeff -- Fuchs, Michael -- Völkl, Yvonne -- Mayer, Evelyn P. -- Benea, Diana -- Prodan, Madalina -- Kohlenberger, Judith --
In "Call Me Ishmael", Charles Olson exclaims "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America". Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the "city upon a hill" to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.
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Space--Social aspects--America--Congresses. Popular culture--America--Congresses.