A Concise Companion to American Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual disciplineAddresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialismExplores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American StudiesDesigned to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies