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Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and …
Creating Realities – Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Business is woven into the very fabric of American life, yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails …
Melting Pots & Mosaics – Children of Immigrants in US–American Literature
In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or …
The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater – Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theatre emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the …
Imaging the Scenes of War
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker …
Fugitive Borders – Black Canadian Cross–Border Literature at Mid–Nineteenth Century
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts …
Black Travel Writing
What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel …
New York Hotel Experience – Cultural and Societal Impacts of an American Invention
For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history. The modern hotel is even an American invention. In five case studies of iconic New York …
After the Storm
"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating consequences for the region, for …
The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual …
Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which …
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society – Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or …