REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Volume 26 (2010)
Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)
Modern cities offer a stage for the emergence, development,
and negotiation of transcultural spaces. Here, the
dialogue/struggle between urbanity, ecology, and the
environment is experienced in its most visible form.
Tensions between the creative and destructive aspects
of global cities reverberate throughout the humanities.
In the wake of the recent politicization of the humanities
and especially the ‘transnational turn’ within the
discipline of American Studies, the ‘environment’ and
‘culture’ have increasingly been represented as hybrid
entities.
This volume addresses a number of questions that are
related to the symbolic construction of transcultural
spaces in academic and literary discourse: How should
– and how can – an interdisciplinary approach react
productively to the post-ecological turn of the 2000s?
What contributions have literary and cinematic fiction,
the visual arts, and other discourses in Germany and
the United States made to participate in a dialogue on
environmental and technological issues? How are we,
as scholars of American studies, to deal with the challenges
of the ongoing environmental crisis which is, by
all means, also a crisis of technological progress? The
individual contributions to this anthology discuss both
the modes of amalgamation and hybridisation by
which city and nature are constituted as complementary
figures as well as the emergence of ‘transethnic,’
‘posturban’ and ‘virtual’ environments.weiterlesen
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