Contact Spaces of American Culture

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Contact Spaces of American Culture
Contact Spaces of American Culture
Author : Petra Eckhard
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Language : English
Release Date : 23 June 2024
ISBN : 9783643504340
Pages : 272 pages
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Contact Spaces of American Culture by Petra Eckhard Book PDF Summary

What do tent cities, basketball courts, slave ships, and Facebook have in common? They are spaces of American culture where an idea of 'Americanness' emerges through a concrete form of contact on the one hand and through its mediated representation on the other. This collection of essays examines these contact spaces - and their myriad and complex configurations of culture - along a spatial axis, highlighting the interconnectedness of the local and the global in concrete spaces of American culture, both inside and outside the US, and from the world wide web. One line of inquiry studies metaphors of contact, the other one reads media texts as contact spaces and investigates the role of mediation. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 12)

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