Space oddities
Subtitle: difference and identity in the American city
By: edited by Stefan L. Brandt and Michael Fuchs
Contributors: Austrian Association for American Studies. Conference
Series: American studies in Austria -- volume 16; American studies in Austria -- v. 16.
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783643507976; 9783643657978
Subjects: Cities and towns; Congresses; Identity (Psychology); Difference (Psychology); City and town life
Other titles: Difference and identity in the American city
Description: "Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City approaches a space (and place) central to the American imagination - the city. In particular, this volume discusses the paradoxes of American cities and American urban life. In this way, Space Oddities critically engages with the paradoxes of the American identity, embodied by cultural practices in, and cultural representations of, urban life in the United States"--Back cover.
Notes: Lectures from the 41st conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies held in Graz, Austria, November 21-23, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.