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The imaginary and its worlds : American studies after the transnational turn / edited by Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, and Johannes Voelz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Re-mapping the transnationalPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1611684064
  • 9781611684063
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imaginary and its worldsDDC classification:
  • 810.9/355 23
LOC classification:
  • PS169.T73 I43 2013eb
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Contents:
The Imaginary and its Worlds: an Introduction / Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz -- Literary Imaginaries. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America / Ramón Saldívar -- The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary / Lawrence Buell -- Imaginaries of American Modernism / Heinz Ickstadt -- Social Imaginaries. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. Real Toads / Walter Benn Michaels -- Obama Unwound: the Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise / Christopher Newfield -- Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries / Donald E. Pease -- Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as Transfer / Winfried Fluck.
Summary: A study of the American imaginary in transnational America.
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Based on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Imaginary and its Worlds: an Introduction / Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz -- Literary Imaginaries. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America / Ramón Saldívar -- The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary / Lawrence Buell -- Imaginaries of American Modernism / Heinz Ickstadt -- Social Imaginaries. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. Real Toads / Walter Benn Michaels -- Obama Unwound: the Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise / Christopher Newfield -- Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries / Donald E. Pease -- Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as Transfer / Winfried Fluck.

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