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Paperback. Condition: New. The idea that America is exceptional, whether because of its founding creed, natural abundance, or Protestant origins, has been the subject of fierce debate going back to the founding. Rather than argue for one side or the other, Volker Depkat explores the diverse ways in which Americans have described their country as exceptional. Describing how narratives of exceptionalism have never been a purely American affair, Depkat shows how, for example, European, African, and Asian immigrants projected their own dreams and nightmares onto the American screen, contributing to the intellectual construction of America. In fact, the different groups living in America have described American exceptionalism in such differing terms that there hardly ever was a shared understanding as to what these exceptional experiences were and how to interpret them. What has unified the disparate exceptionalist narratives, Depkat explains, is their insistence on America's universalist and future-oriented way of life. In engaging and lucid prose, Depkat offers general readers and students of American history an invaluable lens through which they can evaluate for themselves the merits of the many ways in which Americans have understood their country as exceptional.…

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Condition: Neu. Edited by Volker Depkat and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson in collaboration with Jasmin Falk. This volume collects eleven contributions discussing aspects, dimensions, and major problems of cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Looking at the Americas as a site of multi-directional entanglement and interaction, the chapters highlight the non-English and non-European contexts of the United States from the 16th to the 20th century. They focus on processes of cultural hybridity resulting from the encounter of European, Native American, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. Contributions to this volume come from the fields of history, political science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Besides investigating the intellectual construction of the Americas, the texts analyze the history of slavery and emancipation, trace African Diasporas in Colombia and Brazil, critically assess the problem of democracy in Latin America, and scrutinize phenomena of literary entanglements in the Western hemisphere. - Contents: Susanne Lachenicht: How the Americas Came to Be Known as 'the Americas'. A Historical Approach to the Western Hemisphere. - Markus Heide: The Idea of the Western Hemisphere. Imperial Knowledge Production on the Americas in Travel Writing of the Early Nineteenth Century. - Christian Pinnen: The Cultural Transfer of Racial and Legal Traditions. The Natchez District During the Age of Revolutions. - Ursula Prutsch: Slave Emancipation in Brazil and Cuba and Its InterAmerican Dimension. - Valerie V. V. Gruber: Relational Geographies of Afro-Brazilian Identities. What Can We Learn from the Candeal Neighborhood in Salvador Da Bahia (Brazil)? - Gilma Mosquera Torres/Ángela María Franco Calderón: The Value of Collectivism. Property Rights, Urban Patterns, and Traditional Housing on the Colombian Pacific Coast. - Jobst Welge: The Boundaries of Reason. The Legacy of E. A. Poe in Latin America. - Stephen M. Park: NAFTA and the Literary Imagination. - Florian Tatschner: Literary Performance as Border Thinking. A Comparison of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictée" and Norma Elia Cantu's "Canícula". - Rainer Schmidt: Alternatives to Liberal Democracy, Revisited. Lessons from Latin America. - Alan Siaroff: The Political Regimes of the Americas, 2000-2018, and their Historical Origins. - 232 Seiten mit 9 Farb- und fünf s/w-Abb., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy; Vol. 20/Universitätsverlag Winter 2019). Früher EUR 36,00. Gewicht: 476 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.…

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Condition: Neu. Edited by Volker Depkat and Meike Zwingenberger. On both sides of the Atlantic, visual culture studies currently is one of the fastest growing and most innovative fields in academia, attracting a great variety of questions, approaches and disciplines. Indebted to an understanding of visual culture as the means by which cultures visually construct the social field, the articles in this volume address how concepts of legitimacy and authority, race and ethnicity, history and space were visualized over the centuries in Europe and the United States. Contributors cover the creation of political iconographies, contested visual narratives of racial and ethnic difference, images of gender and sexuality, the role of photographs in journalism, and, finally, the importance of visual representations in the construction of historical memory. A broad selection of visual media, ranging from paintings, prints and photographs to experimental cinema and the internet, is analyzed to unearth the visual dimensions of the political and the social in Europe and the United States since the eighteenth century. - Contents: Martin Jay: Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited. - Mark Thistlethwaite: The Face of the Nation. George Washington's Image and American Identity. - Sarah J. Purcell: Seeing Martyrdom. Elmer Ellsworth, James Jackson, and Revolutionary Martyrdom at the Onset of the U.S. Civil War. - Wolfram Pyta: Visualizing Democratic Legitimacy and Authority. The Case of the Weimar Republic. - Shawn Michelle Smith: Augustus Washington and the Civil Contract of Photography. - Astrid Böger: Envisioning Race and Ethnicity. Spectacles of Otherness at the Early American World's Fairs. - Michael P. Conzen: Cartography as Conquest. Visualizing the American West through Maps in the Era of National Expansion. - Ingrid Gessner: War, Visual Politics and Cultural Memory. Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. - Julia Lossau: Geography, the Visual, and Public Art. Exploring the New Gorbals Landscape. - Michael Griffin: Images from Nowhere. Visuality and News in 21st Century Media. - Caja Thimm: The Visuals of Online Politics. Barack Obama's Web Campaign. - Robin Blaetz: Home Movies. Thoughts on Framing the Domestic Sphere in Experimental Cinema. VIII,263 Seiten mit 44 Farb- und 35 s/w-Abb., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Society; Vol. 14/Universitätsverlag Winter 2012). Früher EUR 40,00. Gewicht: 519 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.…