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The imaginary and its worlds

The imaginary and its worlds American studies after the transnational turn / [electronic resource] : edited by Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, and Johannes Voelz. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies .

Based on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univetät Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Imaginary and its Worlds: an Introduction / Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Voelz -- Literary Imaginaries. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America / Ramón Saldívar -- The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary / Lawrence Buell -- Imaginaries of American Modernism / Heinz Ickstadt -- Social Imaginaries. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. Real Toads / Walter Benn Michaels -- Obama Unwound: the Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise / Christopher Newfield -- Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries / Donald E. Pease -- Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as Transfer / Winfried Fluck.

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Transnationalism--United States--Congresses.
Literature and transnationalism--United States--Congresses.
Culture in literature--Congresses.
Transnationalism in literature--Congresses.
American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.


Electronic books.

PS169.T73 / I43 2013

810.9/355