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Title: The American Uses of History

The American Uses of History

Essays on Public Memory

by Tomasz Basiuk (Volume editor) Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska (Volume editor) Krystyna Mazur (Volume editor)
©2011 Conference proceedings 354 Pages
English Studies
Series: New Americanists in Poland, Volume 1

Summary

This collection of essays in American Studies investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. The contributions present the results of diverse fields of research. While most are literary analyses, others focus on film, art works, monuments, and other means by which public memory is shaped. The essays in this collection also analyze travel writings, records of political history, and the ways American agricultural landscape preserves traces of the country’s past.

Details

Pages
354
Year
2011
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631614617
Language
English
Keywords
monuments film art Literature
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2011. 354 pp., 4 fig.

Biographical notes

Tomasz Basiuk (Volume editor) Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska (Volume editor) Krystyna Mazur (Volume editor)

Tomasz Basiuk is a literary and cultural studies scholar, whose work is focused in postmodernism and queer studies. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska works on social American history with a strong interest in gender-inflected aspects of American society. Krystyna Mazur has written on American poetry and film. She is working on a project about lesbian poets in Modernism. All three teach at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw.

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