America Where?

America Where? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century gathers essays by distinguished American Studies scholars from bothsides of the Atlantic. The articles address changing representations of ‘America’in their many and mutual transnational exchanges, both in the Americas and inEurope. Atlanticism, neo-liberalism, transnationalism, borders, racism, prisons,labor, war and intercultural relations compose the range of approaches to be found in this book. While paying close attention to the geopolitical, social, and culturalfabric of the United States as a nation in its intercultural, cross-border time-spaces,this work brings to question the location of ‘America’ in our time. How does this‘America’ – both the material, secular nation in the economic and political world,and the mythical, sacred, and spiritual entity, enormously charged with symbolicpower – present itself today in the Western and Eastern Hemispheres? The book’sprovisional answer is that the most productive «America» is to be found in theconversations that the cultures of the United States encourage and engage in, bothnationally and internationally.