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Ten years ago a groundbreaking cross-generational study revealed that greater freedom and new constraints were leading fewer young people to choose parenthood. In the intervening years, the decision to have a family has not gotten easier.
Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.
Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context.
This new book explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States.
For its eighteenth issue, aspeers dedicates its topical section to “American (Anti-)Heroes” and invites European graduate students to critically and analytically explore US literature, (popular) culture, history, politics, society, and media through the lens of the ‘(anti-)hero.’ We welcome papers from all disciplines, methodologies, and approaches comprising American studies and related fields, and especially those that critically engage constructions and narrations of heroism.
Written by leading scholar Avital Ronell, this new book investigates the complicated image of America within the realm of philosophy. As both a country and a concept, America has long been a site where new and old ideas have converged and transformed. But within this intellectual melting pot contradictory notions emerge, and Ronell deftly explores how European philosophers and American thinkers alike have struggled to explain America’s peculiar place in the history of modern thought.
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