A kaleidoscopic view of America from abroad. A daring collaborative effort, this volume showcases dialogues between international scholars engaged with the United States from abroad. The writers investigate the analytic methods and choices that label certain talk, images, behaviors, and allusions as "American" and how to read the data on such material. Seeking to capture the immense complexities behind labels like "Pro-American" and "Anti-American," the editors present the essays in pairs that overlap in theme or region. Each author subsequently comments on the other's work. A third scholar or team of scholars from a different discipline or geographic location then provides another level of analysis. The cross-cut works invite readers to embrace differing viewpoints and ideas of what constitutes evidence in discovering new intellectual vistas, and to apply their own areas of expertise to furthering each debate.
Author(s): Virginia R. Dominguez, Jane C. Desmond
Series: Global Studies Of The United States
Edition: 1
Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 345
Tags: United States: Foreign Public Opinion; United States: Relations; Civilization, Modern: American Influences; World Politics: 1989-; Social History: 1970-; Social Change; Political Science: Public Policy: Cultural Policy; Popular Culture; Sociology: General
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Acknowledgments
Prologue: Reading “America” Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse
Introduction: The “American” Conundrum—Criticism, Attraction, and Antagonisms
Part I. Whose “America”? Whose “Anti-Americanism”?
1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West-) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement
2. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism: An Italian Perspective
Second Look—Sabine Broeck on Giorgio Mariani
Second Look—Giorgio Mariani on Sabine Broeck
Third Look—Sophia Balakian on Mariani and Broeck— “Sticks and Stones: Discourses of Anti-Americanism as Name-Calling”
Part II. Histories of Engagements: Two Case Studies Looking at Domestic Consumption and Their Contexts
3. Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Poland: A Case Study, 1945–2006
4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia: A Historical Snapshot from 2005
Second Look—Loes Nas on Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek
Second Look—Sophia Balakian on Loes Nas
Third Look—Jane C. Desmond on Delaney & Antoszek and Nas—“Reversing the Vectors of Analysis: Calibrating the ‘Use Value’ of Discourses of ‘Americanism,’ ‘Americanization,’ and ‘Anti-Americanism’”
Part III. Debating the Terms of Debate
5. Kefaya and the New Politics of Anti-Americanism
6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia
Second Look—Manar Shorbagy on Edward Schatz
Second Look—Edward Schatz on Manar Shorbagy
Third Look—Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Schatz and Shorbagy—“What Is Anti-Americanism?”
Third Look—Ira Dworkin on Schatz and Shorbagy— “Thinking Outside of America: The State, the Street, and Civil Society”
Part IV. Visual Engagements and Their Interpretations
7. Lost and Found in Translation: Problems of Cultural Translation in Hungary after 1989
8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood: The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace
Second Look—Richard Ellis on Zsófia Bán
Second Look—Zsófia Bán on Richard Ellis
Third Look—Ana Mauad on Bán and Ellis— An Imagined Community for the Twenty-First Century?
Part V. Disrupting Binaries: Whose “Country Music” and Whose “Hip-Hop”?
9. Tales of the West: “Americanization” in an Era of “Europeanization”
10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power: Anti-American Sentiments in “American” Popular Culture
Second Look—Ian Condry on Kristin Solli
Second Look—Kristin Solli on Ian Condry
Third Look—Michael Titlestad on Solli and Condry— “Dreaming America”
Part VI. Is It “Americanization” or “Pro-Americanism”?The Americas, Pan-Americanism, and Immigration
11. “Making Pals in Panama”: U.S.–Latin American Relations and the Trope of the Good Neighbor in Coca-Cola Advertising during the 1940s
12. Americanism and Anti-Americanism of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles
Second Look—Guillermo Ibarra on Amy Spellacy
Second Look—Amy Spellacy on Guillermo Ibarra
Third Look—Virginia R. Dom.nguez on Spellacy and Ibarra—“Not Just for Latin Americanists”
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