Udo J. Hebel

The volume extends scholary explorations 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. 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 international sites of memory. "

Transnational American Memories

Christoph Wagner

The pictorial turn in the humanities and social sciences has foregrounded the political power of images and the extent to which historical, political, social, and cultural processes and practices are shaped visually. Political iconographies are taken to interpret norms of actions, support ideological formations, and enhance moral concepts. Visual rhetorics are understood as active players in the construction and contestation of the political realm and public space. The twenty-one articles by scholars from Europe and the United States explore the political function and cultural impact of images from the perspectives of Art History, American Studies, Visual Culture Studies, History, and Political Science. The contributions in particular address the complex interplay between agent and addressee in the public space as well as issues of national identity, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and the designation of political spaces within transnational contexts. The publication is part of the interdisciplinary research initiative “Perceiving and Understanding: Functions, Perception Processes, Forms of Visualizations, Cultural Strategies of Pictures and Texts” at the University of Regensburg.

Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America

Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies

Amerika in allen Facetten. Von den Pilgrim Fathers bis zu Desperate Housewives, von kolonialen Reiseberichten bis zur 9/11-Literatur: Die Einführung gibt einen umfassenden und systematischen Überblick über das Studium der Amerikanistik/American Studies als interdisziplinäre Kulturwissenschaft. Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte, Sprachen und Religion werden ebenso vorgestellt wie das politische System der USA und die geografischen, regionalen und demografischen Gegebenheiten. Mit Abbildungen, Tabellen, Zeittafeln, Bibliografien.

Udo J. Hebel

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