\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 âAmericaâ\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 âAmericaâ in our time. How does this\u003cI\u003e \u003c/I\u003eâAmericaâ â 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 â present itself today in the Western and Eastern Hemispheres? The bookâs\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.
nl
en