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Title Transnational American memories / edited by Udo J. Hebel.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 460 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Media and cultural memory, 1613-8961 ; 11 = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
Media and cultural memory ; 11.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty's Autobiographical WritingRoots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo; Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I; "Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France": Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers; Liberating Dachau: Transnational D.
Summary The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world℗þs fairs as international sites of memory.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
History in literature.
History in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history -- United States.
Literature and history.
United States.
Collective memory and literature -- United States -- History.
Collective memory and literature.
History.
United States -- Historiography.
Historiography.
United States -- In literature.
United States -- In motion pictures.
United States -- In art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Art.
Added Author Hebel, Udo J.
Other Form: Print version: Transnational American memories. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110224207 (DLC) 2009031319 (OCoLC)431533136
ISBN 9783110224214 (electronic book)
3110224216 (electronic book)
9783110224207 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
3110224208 (hardback ; alkaline paper)