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Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
ISSN 2616-9533 · University of Innsbruck · 133 artikel di indeks
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Can Literature Come to the Rescue When History Is Under Siege? How One Novel Can Be a Trojan Horse to Engage Questions Some Politicians Don't Want Us to Ask
Under pressure from right-wing Republican politicians, more than half of US states have passed measures designed to discourage teachers from teaching their students about the role that racism has played in the United States' past and present. This article argues that teaching Mark Twain's 1885…
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Narrative in the Anthropocene. By Erin James. Ohio State UP, 2022, 207 pp.
Nassim W. Balestrini reviews Erin James's Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State UP, 2022).
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Indigenous Poets as Cartographers of Crisis and Memory: Joy Harjo's Poet Laureate Signature Project Living Nations, Living Words
Joy Harjo's signature project as US poet laureate was published as an intricately designed online experience and as the eponymous printed anthology Living Nations, Living Words. While both versions feature the same poems, they differ in several respects. This article elucidates the argumentative…
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Investigative Aesthetics in the American Studies Classroom: Approaching 9/11 through Alejandro González Iñárritu's 11'09''1: September 11
This article introduces and explores the implementation, potential, and challenges of investigative aesthetics, a methodology established by the interdisciplinary Forensic Architecture Network, as a specific didactic method in the realm of aesthetic education in the American studies classroom, more…
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Paneling to Avoid 'Deer in the Headlights' Moments in Class: Critical Race Theory Counterdialogues in a Seminar on Percival Everett's Novel James (2024)
There is much anxiety swirling around when three forces meet on the first day of class in a new semester: a new topic, a new group, and a new educator. "Paneling" is a guided group-work teaching tool that counters this uncomfortable atmosphere. It also equips every student with expertise within an…
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Narrative in Crisis: Reflections from the Limits of Storytelling. Edited by Martin Dege and Irene Strasser. Oxford UP, 2024, 182 pp.
Mahshid Mayar reviews Narrative in Crisis: Reflections from the Limits of Storytelling (Oxford UP, 2024) edited by Martin Dege and Irene Strasser.
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Pictures at an Environmental Exhibition: Reflections on the Art of Photography Curation
During the 2023–24 academic year, we worked together at the Harry Ransom Center, a major humanities research center and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, to organize "Visualizing the Environment: Ansel Adams and His Legacy." The exhibition, which ran from late August 2024 through early…
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Introduction: American Studies in the Classroom – Arts, Culture, and Critical Pedagogy
This introduction situates the special issue's central premise that artistic and aesthetic practices offer powerful pedagogical tools for critical inquiry in American studies. Framed by the field's interdisciplinary traditions and its ongoing epistemic transformations, the introduction reflects on…
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Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist. By Aneta Ostaszewska. U of Warsaw P, 2023, 161 pp.
Lena E. Leßlhumer reviews Aneta Ostaszewska's Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist (U of Iowa P, 2023).
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Cabin Fever, or: Back to the Future? The (Anti-)Pastoral in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Walden (1854)
Canonized classics of US-American literature such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly and Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or, Life in the Woods were published at the beginning of the 1850s – that crucial moment in the history of the United States when it found…
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Re-envisioning America's Frontier: A Speculative Journey through John Wesley Powell's Expedition to the American West and Jaclyn Backhaus's Men on Boats
Histories of the American West, including reports of settler colonial expeditions to newly occupied territories of the United States and accounts of life at the "frontier" have often been told as "heroic tales: stories of adventure, exploration and conflict" (Jameson and Armitage 10). White…
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Transplantation and Alternative Worlds: Speculation in Doctors' Life Writing
Even though organ transplantation has turned into a repeatable and comparatively reliable practice, it still presents ample cause for speculation. In fact, various works of speculative fiction explore the practice in relation to the future. Yet, as this article suggests, speculation about…
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Puerto Rico: A National History. By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Princeton UP, 2024, 312 pp.
Martin Gabriel reviews Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton UP, 2024).
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"Last Frontier. North to the Future." – Oil-Age Alaska and the Environmental Critique in Mei Mei Evans's Oil and Water
This article discusses Mei Mei Evans's 2013 novel Oil and Water as a critical response to the competing narratives that have historically shaped three dominant versions of Alaska in the national imagination: as the Last Frontier to be explored, as an enduring frontier promising a balance between…
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Introduction: Versions, Narratives, and American Studies
This introduction lays out the concept of versioning as a cultural practice and highlights key premises and potentials of the analysis of such practices in the context of American studies. Drawing from narrative theory and theories of speculation, it theorizes the notion of a version as a copy with…
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Splintered Archives -- Versions and Versioning through Erasure Arts and Poetry
A predominantly twenty-first-century, textual-visual practice in othering and versioning documents, erasure (arts and poetry) is the outcome of a variety of disruptive techniques such as black-out, white-out, or strike-through of segments of the "pre-text," text-that-is-already-there. Erasure thus…
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Narratives of Resilience in Times of Climate Crisis: Angry Optimism and Utopian Minimalism in Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Jenny Offill's Weather
The essay discusses two climate change novels, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Jenny Offill's Weather, as resilience narratives. It argues that these novels – New York 2140 speculating about a possible future, set more than 100 years in the future,Weather engaging our present cultural…
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Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature. By Katherine D. Johnston. U of Iowa P, 2023, 207 pp.
Joshua Parker reviews Katherine D. Johnston's Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature (U of Iowa P, 2023).
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The "Colonial Anthropocene" Imaginary
Climate imaginaries – collectively held visions of future climate change – take shape in a variety of media and genres, from computer models to poetry. While some climate imaginaries have proven particularly enduring and have managed to attain a hegemonic status in climate change discourse – for…
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In Search for Alternatives
This article argues that queer theories of affect not only offer an alternative approach to analyzing the horror film in the twenty-first century, but also that a new wave of horror media negotiates its social criticism in newly queer ways. Analyzing Ari Aster's 2018 film Hereditary, it becomes…