Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold
War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously
critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching
innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. "The Futures of American
Studies" considers the field today and provides important
deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent
and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of
the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's
historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory,
the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact
of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate
the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality
studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist--and
antinationalist--discourses. No single overriding paradigm
dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively
and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of
the state of the field, "The Futures of American Studies" is
necessary reading for American Studies scholars.
"Contributors." Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown,
Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck,
Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Gunter
H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, Jose
Estaban Munoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway,
John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos
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