This book explores the purpose and politics of the field. The
contributors to this volume argue that for too long, inclusiveness
has substituted for methodology in American studies scholarship.
The ten original essays collected here call for a robust
comparativism that is attuned theoretically to questions of both
space and time. ""States of Emergency"" asks readers to engage in a
thought experiment: imagine that you have an object you want to
study - Which methodologies will contextualize and explain your
selection? What political goals are embedded in your inquiry? This
thought experiment is taken up by contributors who consider an
array of objects - the weather, cigarettes, archival material,
AIDS, the enemy, extinct species, and torture. The essayists
recalibrate the metrics of time and space usually used to measure
these questions. In the process, each contributes to a project that
redefines the object of American studies, reading its history as
well as its future across, against, even outside the established
grain of interdisciplinary practice.
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