ISBN:
1443873187
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9781443873185
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 592 Seiten, 15 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen (zum Teil in Farbe), Diagramme
DDC:
387.1/0973
Keywords:
United States Congresses Emigration and immigration
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History
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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USA
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Flüchtling
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Einwanderung
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Geschichte 1800-2017
Abstract:
Introduction -- Part I: Arrivals and departures: local and global -- 1 Arrivals and departures -- 2 "The inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance": historical perspectives on the freedom to move -- 3 Harboring empire: London, Canton, Boston -- Part II: The nineteenth century: re-readings and re-writings from offshore -- 4 The old Melville and the sea: ideas of the harbor in Melville's literary career -- 5 Walt Whitman's "Sea Drift" cluster: the encounter of Sufi and American selves at Paumanok -- 6 "The voices came from the sea": ghostly encounters and the Mary Celeste Nicolangelo Becce -- Part III: Across the Atlantic -- and back -- 7 A "battered and accommodating beauty": New York Bay revisited by Henry James in The American Scene -- 8 Neither old nor new but other: Willa Cather's syncretic experience of history and love -- 9 Dangerous trips: war tourism in Willa Cather's One of Ours and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms -- 10 Is home where the anchor drops? representations of the harbor in Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World -- Part IV: Transatlantic views: the Euro-American circulation of ideas -- 11 The Transatlantic making of the American middle class: the origins of an essential category of the American century -- 12 "Roundtrip to Anglo-Saxon democracy": Beatrice Potter Webb's appraisal of industry and society -- 13 The mirror of alienation: T.S. Eliot and the other modernity -- Part V: Topographies of slavery and colonialism -- 14 Derek Walcott: a shipwrecked mind -- 15 Excavating the voice: the "sea's strange fruit" touches Liamuiga's shores -- safe native harbor turns into colonized hell -- 16 Harbors and port towns in Paule Marshall's memoir Triangular Road -- 17 Topophilia and Topophobia in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave -- Part VI: Tropes of migration and harboring -- 18 Adrift: the language of migration and harboring -- 19 Mythologies of migration in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep -- 20 The Malady of Remembrance: contagious memories in Georges Perec's Récits d'Ellis Island translated by Harry Mathews as Tales of Vagrancy and Hope -- Part VII: Trans-Pacific encounters: 21 Founding Chinese America in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea -- 22 Contending forces: Chinese American identity and Chinatown as an ambivalent harbor in Ng's Bone -- 23 When the Transpacific encounter becomes a contagious fluke: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Part VIII: Inflections of the Italian American experience -- 24 Stories of linguistic displacement and cultural longing: the narrative of a second-generation Italian-American -- 2 Italian language and Italian dialects: tendencies and perspectives among the young Italian Americans in the greater New York City area -- 26 The fallacies of political hybridity: transcultural identities and the Italian-American vote in Italy's election and referenda -- Part IX: Italian Americans between fact and fiction -- 27 Pete Panto's story between fact and fiction: Jim Longhi and his Two Fingers of Pride -- 28 In the name of the Father and the Son: Italian migrations in the art of Joseph and William Papaleo -- 29 About family reunions: when The Sopranos met their cousins from Naples -- Part X: Representing Muslim America after 9/11 -- 30 Pulling the rug of religion and race from under Uncle Sam's feet: the subversive fiction of Mohja Kahf and Laila Halaby, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf and Once in a Promised Land -- 31 Veiling and unveiling: vulnerability and self-protection in Mohja Kahf's work -- 32 The proximal-ancillary coverage continuum and the discourse of the American "War on terror".
Abstract:
Poised between the land and the sea, enabling the dynamic flow of people and goods, while also figuratively representing a safe place of rest and refuge, the harbor constitutes a liminal, ambivalent space par excellence that has been central to the American imagination and history since the early colonial days. From the mythical tales of discovery and foundation to the endless flows of migrants, through the dark pages of the slave trade and the imperialistic dream of an ever-expanding nation, harbors, both as a trope and as physical spaces, powerfully signify the American experience. Today, at a time when ideas of border protection and policing gain political prominence in the U.S. and elsewhere, harbors and the constellation of meanings they subsume have become an even more crucial object of critical inquiry. In this volume, thirty-two American Studies scholars from around the world interrogate the manifold significance of ports and of the exchanges they enable or restrain, casting a decentered look onto the complex positioning of the United States in its political, ideological, and cultural relationships with the rest of the world. This collection thus offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary investigation of the U.S.A., engaging the most recent trends in American Studies and actively participating in the international and transnational reconfiguration of the field
Note:
Literaturangaben
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"The essays collected in this volume were originally presented at the Twenty-Third Papers Biennial International Conference of A.I.S.N.A. (the Italian Association of American Studies), Harbors. Flows and Migrations of Peoples, Cultures, and Ideas. The USA in/and the World, which was held in Naples, Italy, from September 24 to September 26, 2015." (Acknowledgements)
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