American Studies and Peace: Proceedings of the 25th AAAS Conference (Nov. 5-7, 1999, Salzburg, Schloss Leopoldskron) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631373708 ISBN 13: 9783631373705

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2001

Synopsis

Is peace an academic subject? Is it teachable? What answers can Americanists offer? This collection of essays, which grew out of an interdisciplinary conference on «American Studies and Peace», brings together perspectives from political science, history, literary and cultural studies, feminism, education, popular culture, and international studies. In a broad transatlantic dialog - involving scholars from Europe and both Americas, South Africa, and Israel - questions of democracy, language, gender, American values, and authorship are addressed and American Studies as a field is tested as to its potential to make a valid contribution to world peace in a socio-political and humanitarian sense.

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The Contributors Dorothea Steiner, Thomas Hartl, Werner Sollors, David Plotke, Walter Grünzweig, Arno Heller, Hans Bak, Tibor Frank, Anne Koenen, Heinz Ickstadt, Emily Budick, Bruce Daniels, Edward M. Griffin, Lesley Marx, Bernhard Kettemann, Udo J. Hebel, Timothy K. Conley, Paul Crumbley, Lindon Barrett, Reinhold Wagnleitner, John Gruesser, William Tate, Louis Kern, Avital H. Bloch, Sabine Sielke, Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, Monika Seidl, Georg Engel, Sonja Kröll, Astrid M. Fellner, Paul Lauter, J. Terry Rolfe, Adi Wimmer.
The Editors: Steiner, Dorothea, Assoc. prof. of American Studies, University of Salzburg. Research and teaching focuses on women writers and gender studies, revisionist historiography, international education, transatlanticism.
Hartl, Thomas taught at the University of Salzburg, works as critic and translator in Vienna; specialist on Raymond Federman, coed. of the online journal Image (&) Narrative.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631373708
• ISBN 13: 9783631373705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Steiner Dorothea, Hartl Thomas