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American Experience – The Experience of America

by Andrzej Ceynowa (Volume editor) Marek Wilczynski (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 346 Pages

Summary

This volume comprises a collection of essays by Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, and American scholars in the fields of American Studies, literary history, art history, and political science. It is focused on the topic of experience as a concept related to the United States and analyses US history, literature, film, art, politics, and society. The essays deal with a wide range of problems and types of representation, from experience as a component of various theoretical discourses through the experience of foreign visitors and recent immigrants for whom America has often been a place of the Other. The volume once again proves that experience has been one of the key categories of American cultural self-understanding.

Details

Pages
346
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653028379
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631635919
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02837-9
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (May)
Keywords
American poetry American fiction American film American music US foreign policy travel writing immigration American painting visual media
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 346 pp., 1 graph

Biographical notes

Andrzej Ceynowa (Volume editor) Marek Wilczynski (Volume editor)

Andrzej Ceynowa, born 1951, is professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His fields of expertise include African-American literature and culture, modern American drama, and the history of censorship in the US. Marek Wilczyński, born 1960, is professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk and the University of Warsaw (Poland). His main fields of interest are American literature and culture of the Early Republic and the antebellum period, as well as the cultural history of New England.

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