Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critic

This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and

American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully sele

For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly