Full Description
This book explores what it means to study America in the 21st century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.
Analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality and periodization, this book reveals both fields of study through the lens of interdisciplinary cases studies, innovative methodologies and a global perspective. Exploring the imagined geographies of America across space and time, the book rethinks the meaning and production of place, and questions what —and where—it means to study America now.
Addressing the key issues of nation, place and people in this new disciplinary moment, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of American Studies and Area Studies.
Contents
Introduction. Infinite Space: American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies 1. Entanglements: "The American Look", Everyday Dress, New Area Studies and American Pragmatism 2. Where is New Area Studies? Multifocal Perspective in the Art of Fiona Foley. 3. Settler Colonial Keywords for New Area Studies: Land, Labour, and Language in Mark Twain's Following the Equator (1897). 4. American Notes: Listening to America in Late Nineteenth Century Britain, Listening for New Area Studies 5. Hunting for New Area Studies: Transnational Animals and Transatlantic Fox Hunting Culture 6. A Place for New Area Studies: The Real and Imagined Landscapes of the American Frontier
