{"product_id":"9780822384199","title":"The Futures of American Studies","description":"Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. \u003ci\u003eThe Futures of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist—and antinationalist—discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, \u003ci\u003eThe Futures of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary reading for American Studies scholars.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080820015344,"sku":"9780822384199","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822384199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}