Nadja Gernalzick and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, eds. Transmediality and Transculturality (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013), 444 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 As Nadja Gernalzick and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, the editors of the essay volume Transmediality and Transculturality, note in their preface, the notion of “transculturation” traces back to the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortíz’s 1940 study Contrapunteo cubano del…
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Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke, eds. Knowledge Landscapes North America (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016), 305 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 The recent endeavors of the Trump administration to instigate reforms regarding political, educational, and ecological programs (to put it very mildly), as well as its attempts to recalibrate what knowledge is and how…
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NADJA GERNALZICK and GABRIELE PISARZ-RAMIREZ, eds. Transmediality and Transculturality (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013), 444 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 As Nadja Gernalzick and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, the editors of the essay volume Transmediality and Transculturality, note in their preface, the notion of “transculturation” traces back to the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortíz’s 1940 study Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco…
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CHRISTIAN KLOECKNER, SIMONE KNEWITZ, and SABINE SIELKE, eds. Knowledge Landscapes North America (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016), 305 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 The recent endeavors of the Trump administration to instigate reforms regarding political, educational, and ecological programs (to put it very mildly), as well as its attempts to recalibrate what knowledge is and how knowledge…
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