The Imaginary and Its Worlds
The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn by Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1611684072, 1611684188 | 312 pages | EPUB | 0,5 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1611684072, 1611684188 | 312 pages | EPUB | 0,5 MB
The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodological and theoretical groundwork for American studies scholarship in the transnational era and opening new arenas for conceptualizing formations of imaginary belonging and subjectivity. This important state-of-the-field collection will appeal to a broad constituency of humanists working to overcome methodological nationalism.