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Transnational American Memories
von: Udo Hebel
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG, 2009
ISBN: 9783110224214 , 467 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen
Preis: 189,95 EUR
Frontmatter
2
Contents
6
Introduction
10
Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth
20
Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier
42
Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez’s Disease Narrative
68
Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters
88
Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk
114
Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty’s Autobiographical Writing
138
Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
154
Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo
180
Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I
194
“Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France”: Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers
224
Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory
252
Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War
276
Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero
294
(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago’s World’s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory
320
Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C.
342
Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley
360
“A Lens into What It Means to Be an American”: African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory
386
Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century
414
Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century
434
Commentary Epilogue
456
Notes on Contributors
462
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