A Concise Companion to American Studies

<i>A Companion to American Studies</i> is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. <ul type=”disc”> <li>A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the “new” American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline</li> <li>Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism</li> <li>Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies</li> <li>Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies</li> </ul>