Description
This volume takes a close look at what it means to be American today from a European perspective, and how our conception of Americanness has been transformed by Trump. European conception of Americanness has been profoundly transformed by Donald Trump It seems that with Donald Trump's second term, a new era has begun in relations between the United States and Europe - an era that requires Europeans to redefine what it means to be American in many senses - political, economic, cultural, and literary. We must take a fresh, careful look at what the canon of American literature and art actually is, as well as at American values - democracy and individualism - which for many decades have been a guarantee of the European world's stability. This is precisely the task this book sets out to accomplish. Pawel Marcinkiewicz is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Opole, Poland. His research focuses on American literature and translation theory.
