American studies : a user's guide / Philip J. Deloria and Alexander I. Olson.

Author
Deloria, Philip Joseph [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "American Studies has long been a welcoming home for adventurous intellectuals. Whether blurring disciplines or fighting for social justice, students of the field have generated new ways of understanding the culture and politics of the United States in a global context. But what happens when these innovations become widely adopted? Can a shared set of "rules" become a springboard to creativity? Ideal for classroom use, American Studies: A User's Guide offers readers: a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field useful strategies for textual interpretation, archive building, contextualization, comparative analysis, and theory interwoven toolkits that provide the basic framework necessary to understanding the field"--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : the object of American studies
    • History and historiography
    • Four American studies mixtapes
    • An institutional history of American studies (or, what's the matter with mixtapes?)
    • Method and methodology
    • Texts : an interpretive toolkit
    • Archives : a curatorial toolkit
    • Genres and formations : an analytical toolkit
    • Power : a theoretical toolkit
    • A few thoughts on ideas and arguments
    • Dispenser : a case study.
    ISBN
    • 9780520296794 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520296796 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520287730 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520287738 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2017007892
    OCLC
    978295238
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