American Studies
Fabricating the Absolute Fake - Revised Edition
1st Edition
By Jaap Kooijman
October 06, 2013
When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an imagined America, rather than the nation-state USA, is the topic of Fabricating the Absolute Fake. Pop and politics become intertwined, as Hollywood, ...
Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Boyden, Hans Krabbendam, Liselotte Vandenbussche
April 01, 2013
Tales of Transit brings together advances from the fields of transportation and social history, translation studies and literary scholarship to cast new light on the great transatlantic migration movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. For a long time, these ...