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Title Global perspectives on the United States : pro-Americanism, anti-Americanism, and the discourses between / edited by Virginia R. Domínguez and Jane C. Desmond.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Global studies of the United States
Global studies of the United States.
Summary "This edited collection emphasizes public discourse and the related circulation of debates, practices, and commodities that get perceived abroad as having an American origin, such as hip-hop in Japan or the organization of higher education in Germany. These essays provide a unique, global perspective on America, because they are authored by Americanist scholars situated outside of the United States, and working in Britain, Japan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Egypt, South Africa, Panama, Mexico, the Republic of Georgia, Hungary, Norway, and Poland. Encompassing a range of disciplines, including literary studies, art history, political science, and sociology, the collection aims to provide a series of in-depth case studies that focus on specific cultural practices, as well as the importation and exportation of institutional organizational systems. Rather than simply accepting as its starting point the idea of 'Pro-Americanism' and 'Anti-Americanism, ' this project analyzes the production of those concepts when attached to specific social practices, and uncovers the impact that such labeling has on social change within the specific cultural and political contexts of disparate locations. The collection emerges out of research done by the International Forum for U.S. Studies scholars, and includes essays that cover a range of topics, such as the Arab uprising in Egypt, 9/11, U.S.-Latin American relations, and global responses to the Civil Rights Movement"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Reading "America" Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse; Introduction: The "American" Conundrum-Criticism, Attraction, and Antagonisms; Part I. Whose "America"? Whose "Anti-Americanism"?; 1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West- ) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement; 2. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism: An Italian Perspective; Second Look-Sabine Broeck on Giorgio Mariani; Second Look-Giorgio Mariani on Sabine Broeck.
Third Look-Sophia Balakian on Mariani and Broeck-"Sticks and Stones: Discourses of Anti-Americanism as Name-CallingPart II . Histories of Engagements: Two Case Studies Looking at Domestic Consumption and Their Contexts; 3. Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Poland: A Case Study, 1945-2006; 4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia: A Historical Snapshot from 2005; Second Look-Loes Nas on Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek; Second Look-Sophia Balakian on Loes Nas.
Third Look-Jane C. Desmond on Delaney & Antoszek and Nas-"Reversing the Vectors of Analysis: Calibrating the 'Use Value' of Discourses of 'Americanism, ' 'Americanization, ' and 'Anti-Americanism'"Part III . Debating the Terms of Debate; 5. Kefaya and the New Politics of Anti-Americanism; 6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia; Second Look-Manar Shorbagy on Edward Schatz; Second Look-Edward Schatz on Manar Shorbagy; Third Look-Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Schatz and Shorbagy-"What Is Anti-Americanism?"
Third Look-Ira Dworkin on Schatz and Shorbagy-"Thinking Outside of America: The State, the Street, and Civil Society"Part IV . Visual Engagements and Their Interpretations; 7. Lost and Found in Translation: Problems of Cultural Translation in Hungary after 1989; 8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood: The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace; Second Look-Richard Ellis on Zsófia Bán; Second Look-Zsófia Bán on Richard Ellis; Third Look-Ana Mauad on Bán and Ellis-An Imagined Community for the Twenty-First Century?; Part V. Disrup ting Binaries: Whose "Country Mu sic" and Whose "Hip-Hop"?
9. Tales of the West: "Americanization" in an Era of "Europeanization"10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power: Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture; Second Look-Ian Condry on Kristin Solli; Second Look-Kristin Solli on Ian Condry; Third Look-Michael Titlestad on Solli and Condry-"Dreaming America"; Part VI . Is It "Americanization" or "Pro-Americanism"? The Americas, Pan-Americanism, and Immigration; 11. "Making Pals in Panama": U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Trope of the Good Neighbor in Coca-Cola Advertising during the 1940s.
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Subject United States -- Foreign public opinion.
United States.
United States -- Relations.
Relations.
Civilization, Modern -- American influences.
Civilization, Modern -- American influences.
World politics -- 1989-
World politics.
Chronological Term 1989-
Subject Social history -- 1970-
Social history.
Chronological Term 1970-
Subject Social change.
Social change.
Chronological Term Since 1970
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Domínguez, Virginia R., editor.
Desmond, Jane, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Global perspectives on the United States. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252040832 (DLC) 2016040295 (OCoLC)962232325
ISBN 9780252099335 (electronic book)
0252099338 (electronic book)
9780252040832
025204083X
9780252082337
0252082338