Urban Cultures of/in the United States
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book collects the efforts of a team of scholars working at the University of Torino under the auspices of the Project WWS (World-Wide Style). Focusing on diverse areas of inquiry into the transformations of the American city, the essays in this volume...
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This book collects the efforts of a team of scholars working at the University of Torino under the auspices of the Project WWS (World-Wide Style). Focusing on diverse areas of inquiry into the transformations of the American city, the essays in this volume provide perspectives for understanding the complexity of urban cultures in the United States in the late 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. Organized thematically, this book includes contributions in three main areas. The first area covers studies in U.S. history and history of ideas at the turn of the 20th century, in light of its migration/immigration processes as well as in its representations of national greatness and cultural hegemony as reflected in World's Fairs. The second area covers analyses of American literature in the double perspective of the recent emergence of a new form of «global novel», as well as the developments of new subgenres of urban fiction. A third area on inquiry focuses on new practices of organized religion in North America arising from the regionalization of the American metropolis in recent decades.
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Contents: Danuta Romaniuk: How «the Other Half» Eats: The Cultural Significance of Foodways in an Urban Context as Reflected in the Writings of Jewish American Women, 1890-1939 - Luigi Stefanizzi: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Elite from The Philadelphia Negro to «Talented Tenth» - Bahar Gursel: Two Cities, Two Fairgrounds: Chicago's 1893 World Columbians Exposition and Turin's 1911 International Exposition - Carmen Concilio: From West Bengal to New York: The Global Novels of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai - Yomna Saber: Self-Perception While Walking in the City in Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing - Sonia Di Loreto: Cooking up Mystery: Contemporary Mystery Novels and American Cities - Andrea Carosso: «Friend of God»: Megachurches and the New Frontiers of the American Exurb.
Autoren-Porträt
The Editor: Andrea Carosso teaches American Literature and Culture at the University of Torino, where he is also Director of the Master Program in American Studies and Director of the Centro di Studi Americani ed Euro-Americani «Piero Bairati». His recent publications include a book length study of Vladimir Nabokov (Invito alla lettura di Vladimir Nabokov, Milano, 1999) and the forthcoming Redeeming the Fifties: American Culture in the Age of the Cold War. He is the author of several journal articles on urban cultures in the U.S., and a forthcoming book-length study of urban cultures in the American South-West. He has co-edited Real Cities. Rappresentazioni della città negli Stati Uniti e in Canada (Torino, 2006).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 183 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Andrea Carosso
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- ISBN-10: 3034300824
- ISBN-13: 9783034300827
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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