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Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Author: Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler
Explore the Keywords Collaborative interactive website at keywords.nyupress.orgView the Table of Contents — Read the IntroductionAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, a ?keyword? is ?a word that is of great importance or significance.? On the web, "keywords" organize vast quantities of complex information. Keywords for American ...  more » offers these features and more to its readers, providing indispensable meditations on terms and concepts used in cultural studies, American studies, and beyond.Collaborative in design and execution, Keywords for American Cultural Studies collects sixty-four new essays from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as ?America,? ?body,? ?ethnicity,? and ?religion.? Alongside ?community,? ?immigration,? ?queer,? and many others, these words are the nodal points in many of today?s most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy.Here are essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory.Some entries are explicitly argumentative, others are more descriptive. Throughout, readers will find clear, challenging, critically engaged thinking and writing. Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords, and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry. It is equally useful for college students who are trying to understand what their teachers are talking about, for general readers who want to know what?s new in scholarly research, and for professors who just want to keep up.Contributors: Vermonja R. Alston, Lauren Berlant, Mary Pat Brady, Laura Briggs, Bruce Burgett, Christopher Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Eva Cherniavsky, Krista Comer, Micaela di Leonardo, Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert Fanuzzi, Rod Ferguson, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Elizabeth Freeman, Kevin Gaines, Rosemary Marangoly George, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Sandra M. Gustafson, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Judith Halberstam, Glenn Hendler, Grace Kyungwon Hong, June Howard, Janet R. Jakobsen, Susan Jeffords, Walter Johnson, Miranda Joseph, Moon-Ho Jung, Carla Kaplan, David Kazanjian, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Eric Lott, Lisa Lowe, Eithne Luibhéid, Susan Manning, Curtis Marez, Meredith L. McGill, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten, Christopher Newfield, Donald E. Pease, Pamela Perry, Carla L. Peterson, Vijay Prashad, Chandan Reddy, Bruce Robbins, David F. Ruccio, Susan M. Ryan, David S. Shields, Caroline Chung Simpson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Siobhan B. Somerville, Amy Dru Stanley, Shelley Streeby, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Paul Thomas, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Robert Warrior, Alys Eve Weinbaum, Henry Yu, George Yúdice, and Sandra A. Zagarell.
ISBN-13: 9780814799482
ISBN-10: 0814799485
Publication Date: 10/1/2007
Pages: 288
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Paperback
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