Transnational America

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Transnational America

Name: Transnational America
Brand: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
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Contours of Modern US Culture

Written by Russell Duncan and Clara Juncker

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This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between today's globalisation and Americanisation. Transnationalism involves a loosening of boundaries, a deterritorialisation of the nation-state, and higher degrees of interconnectedness among cultures and peoples across the globe. As people make transnational voyages and live lives of flexible citizenship in two or more cultures, they adhere to a new type of nationalism that creates an exclusionist discourse and builds the Other as conservative defenders of cruder territorial loyalties. This transnational solidarity -- a new communitarianism beyond the loyalties to any one place or ethnic group -- threatens the old order with its conceptions that assimilation and integration will remake the foreigner into a particular national citizen. The authors address the complex issues of globalisation, American mythology, Christian proselytising, modern slavery, conspiracy theory, apocalyptic terrorism, Vietnam stories, international feminism, changing gender roles, resurgent regionalism and the changing definitions of place.

ISBN-13: 9788772899589
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
Publication date: 1 September 2004
Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
Dimensions: 155 x 230 mm
Illustrations: colour & b/w photos
Language: English