Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (322 S.)
Series Statement:
Amerika: Kultur - Geschichte - Politik 4
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The transatlantic sixties
Keywords:
1960s, Europe, American Studies, Culture, Transatlantic Relations, America, Cultural History, American History, Global History, History of the 20th Century, History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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USA
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Europa
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Kulturaustausch
Abstract:
Main description: This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Warsaw and the University of Lodz. His research focuses on modern American poetry and photography. Clara Juncker is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include American Literature, Women's Studies, and Transnational Studies. Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on the US South in cultural history and American culture in the 1960s. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Her main research interests are Social History, African American History, and the History of Transatlantic Relations.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover The Transatlantic Sixties; Contents; Introduction; New or Larger? JFK's Diverging Visions of Europe; Body Counts and Memorials: The Unexpected Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Model of Memory; "We Shall Overcome": The Impact of the African American Freedom Struggle on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany after World War II; The Transatlantic Women's Movement: Literary and Cultural Perspectives; The Paradox of Re-Colonization: The British Invasion of American Music and the Birth of Modern Rock; The Summer of Love and Protest: Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960s
Description / Table of Contents:
1960s Documentary Film: Perceptions of the Vietnam War in the USA and in GermanyFiction in the 1960s and the Notion of Change: American and European Concepts of Postmodernism; Information, Communication, Systems: Cybernetic Aesthetics in 1960s Cultures; Frost's Negotiations with Khrushchev: National Health, Poetics, and the Fate of West Berlin; A Tale of Three Bridges: Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1961; Trefechan Bridge, Aberystwyth, Wales, 1963; Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, 1965; Contributors; Index
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DOI:
10.14361/transcript.9783839422168
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