{"product_id":"america-where","title":"America Where?","description":"\u003ci\u003eAmerica Where? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century \u003c\/i\u003egathers essays by distinguished American Studies scholars from both\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esides of the Atlantic. The articles address changing representations of ‘America’\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein their many and mutual transnational exchanges, both in the Americas and in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEurope. Atlanticism, neo-liberalism, transnationalism, borders, racism, prisons,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elabor, war and intercultural relations compose the range of approaches to be found in this book. While paying close attention to the geopolitical, social, and cultural\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efabric of the United States as a nation in its intercultural, cross-border time-spaces,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis work brings to question the location of ‘America’ in our time. How does this\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e‘America’ – both the material, secular nation in the economic and political world,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the mythical, sacred, and spiritual entity, enormously charged with symbolic\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epower – present itself today in the Western and Eastern Hemispheres? The book’s\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eprovisional answer is that the most productive «America» is to be found in the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econversations that the cultures of the United States encourage and engage in, both\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003enationally and internationally.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223949955416,"sku":"9783034312394","price":74.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783034312394.jpg?v=1777086956","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/america-where","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}