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International American Studies and the question of World literature. An Introduction

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Mariani G.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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issue 1

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Since its inception, International American Studies (IAS) had to define itself against the larger backdrop of global or world studies. However, as Paul Giles notes in his contribution to this special issue of RIAS marking the 10th anniversary of the journal and devoted to “International American Studies and the Question of World literature,” “World Literature in its current institutional manifestation is a much more recent phenomenon” than IAS, and may have “accumulated academic prestige more rapidly and securely than International American Studies has so far managed.” Whatever their different temporal and institutional trajectories, however, both IAS and World literature may be seen as efforts to come to terms with the momentous historical, political, social, and technological changes of the past few decades. Put simply, both can be considered attempts to fashion new epistemological tools better suited to making sense of a globalized world, so that, no matter how (relatively?) different their objects of study might be, a set of theoretical concerns would appear to be shared by both fields. Both students of IAS and World Literature, for example, need to venture beyond the traditional categories of the nation and of national cultures, by coming to terms with the social, historical, and linguistic complexities that such a move entails. Both have to do so in a way that “opens” one’s field and yet preserves its raison d’être, especially at a time when the humanities are under attack and the defense of academic positions and credentials-all calls for “interdisciplinarity” notwithstanding-is of paramount importance. Both need to rethink the parameters of their disciplinary specializations, that is, without pulling the institutional rugs from under their feet-a precarious balancing act which, in the age of the corporate university, with its rage for classifying, evaluating, and ranking, is far from easy to perform.

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American Studies as Italian Theory

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Mitrano M.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Mena MitranoLoyola University ChicagoJFRC American Studies as Italian TheoryConsidering Roberto Esposito's narrative of Italian Theory, according to which Italian Theory first started as a US-based phenomenon and only later irradiated in other parts of the world, this paper explores the consequences of that narrative and the questions that it might raise for American Studies: Might Italian Theory rightfully belong to the Americanist's domain of inquiry? If so, what impact might it have on the identity of the Americanist? What is an Americanist? The paper argues that this new wave of theory illuminates the confluence of American Studies and critical thought, both involved in a simultaneous movement of deterritorialization that pushes them outside their established boundaries. Keywords: American Studies, literary and cultural theory, Italian American Studies, Italian Theory

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Narrative Change Management in American Studies: A Pragmatic Reading by Silke Schmidt (A Book Review)

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Rees D.

Review of International American Studies

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2022

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vol. 15

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issue 2

241-249

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Daniel Rees's review of Narrative Change Management in American Studies by Silke Schmidt.

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Like Mother, Like Daughter?: Matrilineal Opposition in African American Mulatta Melodrama

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Pochmara A.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2017

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issue 26/1

165-192

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The article juxtaposes representations of mothers and daughters in selected African American novels that feature near-white female protagonists: W. W. Brown’s Clotel, Or the President’s Daughter (1853), Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892), Charles Chesnutt’s The House behind the Cedars (1900), and Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter (1902). It explores the matrilineal opposition through a formalist close analysis of the melodramatic poetics of the texts and examines the political signifi cance of such aesthetic choices. The novels expose the American history of interracial relations through their foregrounding of the mulatta protagonists and numerous scenes of anagnorisis of their multiracial identities. Simultaneously, their “erotics of politics” rewards the choice of a black spouse and thus celebrates the emergence of the self-determined black community.

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Abandoning America the Better to Save American Studies: A Proposal

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Valenta M.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Markha ValentaRadboud University Nijmegen Abandoning America the Better to Save American Studies: A Proposal Abstract: This paper argues that the most fruitful future for American Studies is one that subsumes it to global projects, critical sensibilities, political, intellectual and aesthetic fields greater than itself. Correspondingly, the prime referent of American Studies ought not to be a reified “America” but rather the paradoxes, tensions and contestations between democratic and inhumanely extractive relations that gave birth to and continue to shape the US/Americas, even as their reach and flow far exceed “America.” The US – as icon, social field and political actor – is as much the effect as the source of global forces. The most important of these today are ones that qualify, selectively dissolve, concentrate and reconfigure constitutive elements of the nation-state and political geography. Taking this seriously – as the US follows in the footsteps of other countries that have been producing one chauvinist strongman leader after another – means making American Studies not about either “America” or the US but about the world. One particularly promising avenue entails scholarship engaging and contributing to a radical, globalizing democratic culture that is, in fact, deeply aligned with some of the most important traditions and sensibilities in American Studies itself. Keywords: Globalization, Democracy, Politics, America, American Studies

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Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”

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Martinez C.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Carlo MartinezUniversità "Gabriele d'Annunzio," Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory.” (In the present issue of RIAS). Keywords: reflexivity, American studies as Italian Theory, literary theory, cultural theory, American Studies, the New Americanists

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Subsuming “America” to the “Global.” A Response to Markha Valenta’s “Abandoning America the Better to Save America”

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Mariani G.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Giorgio MarianiDipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e InterculturaliUniversità "Sapienza" di Roma Subsuming “America” to the “Global.” A Response to Markha Valenta’s “Abandoning America the Better to Save America” A Response to Markha Valenta’s “Abandoning America the Better to Save America.” (In the present issue of RIAS). Keywords: transnational turn, American Studies, democracy, internationalization of American Studies, refocusing American studies, globalization

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Abstracts and Notes on Contributors

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Editors R.

Review of International American Studies

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2019

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vol. 12

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issue 2

181-188

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Abstracts in English and biographical notes on the Contributors of the feature texts of the issue.

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Campo di Fiori, or Walls

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Jędrzejko P.

Review of International American Studies

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2018

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vol. 11

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Paweł JędrzejkoDepartment of American and Canadian StudiesInstitute of English Cultures and LiteraturesUniversity of Silesia in KatowicePoland Campo di Fiori, or WallsAbstract: The present editorial addresses the issue of separation walls as from an ethical standpoint. Walls, metaphorical and physical, offering those (temporarily) privileged protection from the realization of the uncomfortable fact that they stand by while others suffer and die, are supposedly to “keep us free,” although in fact they become a prison of an illusion of safety and a weapon that may sooner or later be used against those who pretend not to hear the noise of the ongoing battle “on the other side.” Keywords: American Studies, walls, Campo di Fiori, Czesław Miłosz, ethics, separation, isolation, editorial

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The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now”

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Broncano Rodríguez M.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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issue 1

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Manuel Broncano RodríguezTexas A&M International University The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now” A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now.” (In the present issue of RIAS). Keywords: humanities, state control, ignorance, American Literature, World Literature, world culture, American Studies, Comparative Studies

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International American Studies and the question of World literature. An Introduction

American Studies as Italian Theory

Narrative Change Management in American Studies: A Pragmatic Reading by Silke Schmidt (A Book Review)

Like Mother, Like Daughter?: Matrilineal Opposition in African American Mulatta Melodrama

Abandoning America the Better to Save American Studies: A Proposal

Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”

Subsuming “America” to the “Global.” A Response to Markha Valenta’s “Abandoning America the Better to Save America”

Abstracts and Notes on Contributors

Campo di Fiori, or Walls

The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now”