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Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems
The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and …
Power Relations in Black Lives – Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or …
Global Curriculum Development
How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey's education theory, …
The Myths That Made America
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities …
An Organon of Life Knowledge – Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life …
The New Formula For Cool
"Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha males," Dr Leonard Hofstadter, experimental physicist and protagonist of the hit sitcom …
Poets of Protest
Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying …
American Mobilities
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. …
Beware of the Other Side(s)
This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called …
Savage Horrors – The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. …
Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920
The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the American Southwest, it contributed to …
Subjects of Substance – Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, disciplines like neuroscience and …