Conformity and Resistance in America (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

Conformity and Resistance in America, a collection of thirty six essays from various fields of the U.S. studies, addresses the American culture as a space of fruitful tensions between the generally acknowledged canons and the projects that have questioned and subverted its very foundations and archives. The book seeks to give justice to those areas of American culture that traditionally used to be treated as marginal and negligible but which in fact have added up to its uniqueness. This includes various areas of American cultural and literary studies, gender and minority studies, themes of diasporic communities, multi-ethnic and multicultural society, problems of global economy and of competing worldwide ideologies. The papers included in this book try to answer pressing questions of the American identity in the post-9/11 world, and do so by pointing to the recent "humanities crisis" as well as revealing moments of heterogeneity and discontinuity in the making of any culture. Contrary to Samuel Huntington's dictum telling us of the inevitable "clash of civilizations," the following essays concentrate on what Edward W. Said called "humanism's sphere" - the sphere of antagonizing discourses and narratives which challenge rather than confirm the bases of their legitimacy. Wavering between conformity and resistance, the essays propose possible formulas for the new American identity as it strives to define and project itself into the new century.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2007
First published:	February 2007
Editors:	Jacek Gutorow • Tomasz Lebiecki
Dimensions:	212 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	460
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84718-113-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	1-84718-113-9
Barcode:	9781847181138

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