States of emergency
Subtitle: the object of American studies
By: edited by Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman.
Contributors: Castronovo, Russ, 1965-; Gillman, Susan Kay.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833407; 9780807859858
Subjects: United States -- Civilization; United States -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The study of the American problems / Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman; title: Rogue states and emergent disciplines / Srinivas Aravamudan; title: Migrant archives : new routes in and out of American studies / Rodrigo Lazo; title: Toxicity and the consuming subject / Nan Enstad; title: Past burning : the (post-)traumatic memories of (post-)queer theory / Christopher Castiglia; title: Paranoid empire : specters from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib / Anne McClintock; title: Taking the measure of the black atlantic / Kenneth W. Warren; title: Cicero's ghost : the atlantic, the enemy, and the laws of war / Ian Baucom; title: World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimock; title: American studies in an age of extinction / Robert S. Levine.