| Transnational American Memories Contributor(s): Hebel, Udo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110224208 ISBN-13: 9783110224207 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2009031319 |
| Series: Media and Cultural Memory/Medien Und Kulturelle Erinnerung |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.72 lbs) 467 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world's fairs as international sites of memory. |
