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Transnational American Memories

:	Udo J. Hebel
:	Udo Hebel
:	Transnational American Memories
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110224214
:	Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle ErinnerungISSN
:	1
:	CHF 177.60
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:	Kulturgeschichte
:	English

:	467
:	Wasserzeichen/DRM
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The volume extends scholary explorations of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as international sites of memory.

Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany.

	Frontmatter	2
	Contents	6
	Introduction	10
	Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth	20
	Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier	42
	Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez’s Disease Narrative	68
	Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters	88
	Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk	114
	Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty’s Autobiographical Writing	138
	Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated	154
	Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo	180
	Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I	194
	“Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France”: Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers	224
	Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory	252
	Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War	276
	Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero	294
	(Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago’s World’s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory	320
	Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C.	342
	Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley	360
	“A Lens into What It Means to Be an American”: African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory	386
	Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century	414
	Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century	434
	Commentary Epilogue	456
	Notes on Contributors	462