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Part I. Theoretical approaches. A future for American Studies: the comparative U.S. cultures model -- Postmodernity and the new American Studies -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American Studies -- The resistance to cultural studies in the United States -- Part II. Textual examples. Hawthorne's ghost in Henry James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in the nineteenth century -- Modern art and the invention of postmodern capital -- Another modernism: poetic justice in Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Metavideo: fictionality and mass media in our postmodern economy -- "Bringing it all back home": U.S. recyclings of the Vietnam War -- Elián González, Cuban American détente, and the rhetoric of family values. |
