After American Studies is a timely critique of national and
transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging
and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology
and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural
forms-including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines,
urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education,
and ostensibly non-state media-the argument fills a gap in
contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons
symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them.
The book makes important points about the limits of
transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches
often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity
that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to
the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter
initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and
postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).
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