The Fiction of America

Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film

Susanne Hamscha author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Campus Verlag

Published:29th Oct '13

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The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. Conceptualizing "America" as a transhistorical practice, Susanne Hamscha reveals disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of "America" that confront American culture with its inherent inconsistencies.

ISBN: 9783593398723

Dimensions: 21mm x 14mm x 2mm

Weight: 425g

350 pages