Americanness
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Americanness
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-11
Americanness written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-11 with History categories.
Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of, and despite, their pronounced diversity. The book investigates shared ideas and ideals, such as individualism, mobility, materialism, and future-orientation, that drive an overarching American worldview. Simon J. Bronner begins with ideas of space and time as they formed and changed through the history of the United States, before moving to the emergence of modern American culture. He examines reasons America is characterized as having a "victory culture" that extends to the American legal, military, and business complexes. This victory culture is further analyzed by looking at the country’s relationship with the game of football—a sport that thrives in America but has not caught on in other countries. Finally, the volume probes American consumerism driven by a desire for individual prosperity in a supposedly egalitarian society. Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from psychology, sociology, ethnology, and history, Bronner seeks explanations for people invoking, and evoking, ideas that they perceive as American. This book would be an invaluable addition to courses on American history, sociology, cultural studies, and American studies.
Constituting Americanness
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Author : Iulian Cananau
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Release Date : 2015
Constituting Americanness written by Iulian Cananau and has been published by Peter Lang Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American literature categories.
Following Koselleck's history of concepts, Americanness is approached as a semantic field at the intersection of several antebellum concepts (nation, representation, sympathy, race, and womanhood, among others), in the various stages of their respective histories. The book is also a period study of major American writers of the antebellum era.
Performing Americanness
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Author : Catherine Rottenberg
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2008
Performing Americanness written by Catherine Rottenberg and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comparative analysis of modern African-American and Jewish-American narratives
National Abjection
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Author : Karen Shimakawa
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-12-05
National Abjection written by Karen Shimakawa and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-05 with Social Science categories.
National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between "Asian Americanness" and "Americanness” through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in U.S. culture are a function of national abjection—a process that demands that Americanness be defined by the exclusion of Asian Americans, who are either cast as symbolic foreigners incapable of integration or Americanization or distorted into an “honorary” whiteness. She examines how Asian Americans become culturally visible on and off stage, revealing the ways Asian American theater companies and artists respond to the cultural implications of this abjection. Shimakawa looks at the origins of Asian American theater, particularly through the memories of some of its pioneers. Her examination of the emergence of Asian American theater companies illuminates their strategies for countering the stereotypes of Asian Americans and the lack of visibility of Asian American performers within the theater world. She shows how some plays—Wakako Yamauchi’s 12-1-A, Frank Chin’s Chickencoop Chinaman, and The Year of the Dragon—have both directly and indirectly addressed the displacement of Asian Americans. She analyzes works attempting to negate the process of abjection—such as the 1988 Broadway production of M. Butterfly as well as Miss Saigon, a mainstream production that enacted the process of cultural displacement both onstage and off. Finally, Shimakawa considers Asian Americanness in the context of globalization by meditating on the work of Ping Chong, particularly his East-West Quartet.
The Americanness Of Walt Whitman
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Author : Leo Marx
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Americanness Of Walt Whitman written by Leo Marx and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with National characteristics, American, in literature categories.
The Americanness Of Walt Whitman
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-03-01
The Americanness Of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-01 with History categories.
A study on problems in American civilization, prepared by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College.
The Internet And Formations Of Iranian American Ness
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Author : Donya Alinejad
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Internet And Formations Of Iranian American Ness written by Donya Alinejad and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans. Donya Alinejad unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through her discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, and long-distance engagement in the historic Iranian Green Movement. The book argues that web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation, and introduces the notion of second-generation “digital styles” to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.
Social Inequality And Discrimination In Hidden Figures 2016
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Author : Celine Skrgic Marin
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2023-01-13
Social Inequality And Discrimination In Hidden Figures 2016 written by Celine Skrgic Marin and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 3,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the Americanness which is shown in the American film biography "Hidden Figures" which was produced by Theodore Melfi in 2016 and is based on a true story. It presents the life of three Afro-American women in the 1950s who work at the NASA as computers and solve difficult math problems by hand. Racism, sexism, and racial segregation were a big problem at the time in the US, which is clearly portrayed in the film. It is the time before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, so it is a very difficult and oppressive time for Afro-American people. Especially women in particular have hardly any rights, claims, or prospects. Katherine Johnson, the main character, is the only computer that would come into question to enable John Glenn’s attempt to send a rocket into space before the Soviet Union manages it. From then on, the rights and views in the company begin to change. Mary Jackson, also one of the three main characters, begins to gain courage and wants to become an engineer, which she can only achieve if she takes an evening course, but only white people are allowed, so she goes to court and wins. She is the first black woman allowed to attend one of the evening courses in history. In the following, the paper analyzes some scenes from the film that reflect racism, sexism, racial segregation, and discrimination to show that these issues played a major role in the 50s and 60s and to be able to give a better insight into these topics. Then it goes into more detail about the Civil Rights Act, how it was drafted, who signed it and how or if life has improved for people of color afterward. After that, it defines what the American Dream and the Declaration of Indepence say and relate it to the film. Questions like: 1. How is the American Dream presented in "Hidden Figures"? 2. Does it also apply to people of color? 3. How do the colored experiences of success that have a positive effect on the future achieve? are worked out and answered. In the end, the paper summarizes the work and examines whether the director manages to give a good insight into a realistic life of a woman of color through the film and whether he manages to portray Americanness in the film.
Contact Spaces Of American Culture
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Author : Petra Eckhard
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2012
Contact Spaces Of American Culture written by Petra Eckhard and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
What do tent cities, basketball courts, slave ships, and Facebook have in common? They are spaces of American culture where an idea of 'Americanness' emerges through a concrete form of contact on the one hand and through its mediated representation on the other. This collection of essays examines these contact spaces - and their myriad and complex configurations of culture - along a spatial axis, highlighting the interconnectedness of the local and the global in concrete spaces of American culture, both inside and outside the US, and from the world wide web. One line of inquiry studies metaphors of contact, the other one reads media texts as contact spaces and investigates the role of mediation. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 12)
Latining America
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Author : Claudia Milian
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-02-01
Latining America written by Claudia Milian and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Social Science categories.
With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian’s innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored “Latin” participants––the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American—have ushered in a new world of “Latined” signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian’s new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks “Latino/a” subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialized classifications.