TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuchs,Michael
AU  - Holub,Maria-Theresia
TI  - Placing America: American culture and its spaces 
T2  - American studies
SN  - 3837620808
AV  - E169 .P533 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - Transcript
KW  - Space
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - America
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 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; 2; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Placing America; Holub, Maria-Theresia --; Performing America Abroad; Lippert, Leopold --; America, the Threat of Time; Jahr, Ida --; Setting the Scene; Lill, Julia van --; Fallujah Manhattan Transfer; Drennig, Georg --; There's No Place Like Fiction; Thoss, Jeff --; The Black Hole at the Heart of America?; Fuchs, Michael --; Meeting at the Border; Völkl, Yvonne --; : omanized Gauls9; Mayer, Evelyn P. --; Spaces of Native American Ghostliness in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon; Benea, Diana --; Getting a Name; Prodan, Madalina --; This Space Called Science:; Kohlenberger, Judith --; Contributors --; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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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