Introduction: America and Its Studies

Kadir, Djelal

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“…10 For a cogent critique of the US Americanist use of the term 'Americas', see Kadir (2003). 11 The different visions of the Americas promoted by Cuban independence leader José Martí and US historian Herbert Eugene Bolton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, respectively, exert contradictory pressures on contemporary inter-American scholarship that bear especially upon Latin American studies' orientation toward inter-Americas studies.…”

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Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

Sadowski-Smith

2004

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

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Section: The Hemispheric Perspective Within American Studies Has Beenmentioning

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Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

Sadowski-Smith

2004

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

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“…When for the most part American studies programs and courses are housed and offered in English departments, it is crucial to remember that American studies in India cannot be abstracted from the history and legacy of European colonialism. 8 For recent contributions to these debates, see Giles (2002), Kadir (2003), Muthyala (2001), Pease and Wiegman (2002), and Rowe (2000). …”

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'America' in transit The heresies of American studies abroad

Muthyala

2003

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

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“The Americans Are Coming!?” Postcommunist Reconfigurations of the US in California Dreamin’ (Endless)

Luca¹

2014

J. Am. Stud.

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My article focuses on the film California Dreamin’ (Endless) in order to examine the way the movie problematizes and brings in dialogue contemporary overlapping and contradictory Romanian ideologies in relation to the US. By taking the movie as a lens for the Romanian context, my paper analyzes how the US is signified and decoded in the aftermath of communism in Romania. I discuss how the movie envisions a continuous questioning and interrogation of the precommunist past and the postcommunist present upon which images, perceptions, fictions, and appropriations of “America” are predicated in the post-1989 Romanian context. My argument is that by mapping the overlapping terrain of the foreign and the domestic past and present, the film critically reconfigures the space between the US and one of its main supporters in the “New Europe.” It explores axes of local, national, and international interests, pointing to the contradictory, ambiguous sociocultural representations that accrue to “America” as it is caught up in itineraries and mis/translations across a “Second World” site. I contend that the dialogic examination Romania–US that the movie successfully achieves can become an ideal model for approaching the US in the Eastern European space.

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Introduction: America and Its Studies

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

'America' in transit The heresies of American studies abroad

“The Americans Are Coming!?” Postcommunist Reconfigurations of the US in California Dreamin’ (Endless)

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