Category: Miscellaneous Cultural Studies

ANTJE KLEY and HEIKE PAUL, eds. Rural America, American Studies—A Monograph Series, Vol. 253 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2015), 510 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 In his Executive Order 13575 of June 9, 2011, then-President Barack Obama established the “White House Rural Council” in order to “promote economic prosperity and quality of life in our rural communities.”…

KLAUS LÖSCH, HEIKE PAUL, and MEIKE ZWINGENBERGER, eds., Critical Regionalism (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016), 378 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 Regionalism has recently seen a revival in the form of critical regionalism studies. Instead of viewing regions as separate entities or as opposing the nation, critical regionalism espouses a wide range of concepts to approach regions…

SUSANN NEUENFELDT, Schauspiele des Sehens: Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im U.S.-amerikanischen Essay, American Studies – A Monograph Series, Vol. 239 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2015), 294 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 Das Sehen ist kein neutraler Akt der Wahrnehmung, sondern es wohnen ihm Prozesse der Aneignung und Klassifizierung inne, welche die hierarchisierten Differenzen einer…

AHU TANRISEVER, Fathers, Warriors, and Vigilantes: Post-Heroism and the US Cultural Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century, European Views of the United States, Vol. 10 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016), 273 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 Research on heroic figures has shown that those who are deemed heroes act as symbols of contemporary values and ideals of the…

SIMON STRICK, American Dolorologies: Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014), 229 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 The idea of biopolitics, coined by Michel Foucault, and importantly developed further by Giorgio Agamben, Robert Esposito, and others, figures as a key concept for cultural studies and critical theory today. At the same time, it has…

DOMINIK OHREM, ed., American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776-1920 (Berlin: Neofelis, 2017), 303 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2 This collection of ten original articles plus introduction (an article on historiography in its own right) builds on and expands recent research in the field of Animal Studies or Human Animal Studies within…

MARK L. LOUDEN, Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language (Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2016), 504 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.2