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States of emergency : the object of American studies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Castronovo, Russ, 1965-, Gillman, Susan Kay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Subjects:
United States > Civilization.
United States > Study and teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The study of the American problems / Russ Castronovo & Susan Gillman
  • Rogue states and emergent disciplines / Srinivas Aravamudan
  • Migrant archives : new routes in and out of American studies / Rodrigo Lazo
  • Toxicity and the consuming subject / Nan Enstad
  • Past burning : the (post-)traumatic memories of (post-)queer theory / Christopher Castiglia
  • Paranoid empire : specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib / Anne McClintock
  • Taking the measure of the black Atlantic / Kenneth W. Warren
  • Cicero's ghost : the Atlantic, the enemy, and the laws of war / Ian Baucom
  • World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimock
  • American studies in an age of extinction / Robert S. Levine.