Post-Nationalist American Studies

By: John Carlos Rowe

Book Overview

Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era. The goal of the book's contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than canonizes them. Articulating new ways to think about American Studies, these essays demonstrate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520224396
• ISBN13: 9780520224391
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"