Transnational American Memories

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Transnational American Memories

Edited by: Udo Hebel

Volume 11 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224214

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About this book

The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific Studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as transnational sites of memory.

Author / Editor information

Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.

Reviews

"This, then, is a rich and varied and highly stimulating volume."
Chris Saunders in 12/2 (2011)

"Transnational American Memories is an ambitious book which unites concepts of Memory Studies with those of transnational American Studies. [...] The innovative contributions succeed in bringing Memory Studies beyond the focus on local or national sites without losing the idea of American national identity formation. Thus the book becomes particularly useful for scholars of American Studies, and those who focus on Memory Studies will find many turns and conclusions of the texts surprising and enriching."
Andrea Zittlau in: KULT online 27/2011

"Transnational American Memories is an extremely valuable addition to the innovative “Media and Cultural Memory” series [...]: It provides a broad overview over the current scholarship and gives a glimpse of the transnational future of memory studies."
Kathleen Loock in: Amerikastudien/ American Studies 3/2009

"[...] this is a rich, thoughtful, and thought-provoking collection – very competently edited and handsomely produced. It will prove an important resource for students and scholars of Amercian literature, history, and culture; and it is also of considerable interest to students and teachers of postcolonial literature and narrative theory."
Jakob Lothe in: American Studies in Scandinavia, Vol. 42, 4/ 2010

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Udo J. Hebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth Juan Bruce-Novoa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier Astrid M. Fellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez’s Disease Narrative Carmen Birkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters Orm Øverland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk Hans Bak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty’s Autobiographical Writing Nicole Waller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo Alfred Hornung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I Volker Depkat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
“Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France”: Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers David William Seitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory Ingrid Gessner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War Kristin Hass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero Birgit Däwes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago’s World’s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory Astrid Böger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. Kirk Savage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
“A Lens into What It Means to Be an American”: African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory Birgit Bauridl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century Michael Kammen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century David W. Saxe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Commentary Epilogue Edward T. Linenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 460
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
Keywords: Cultural Memory; Commemorative Identity Construction; Politics of Remembrance; American Memories

eBook

Published: September 4, 2009
ISBN: 9783110224214

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110224207