American Studies

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. This welcoming spirit has found appeal around the world, but at the heart of the field is an identity crisis. Nearly every effort to articulate an American Studies methodology has been rejected for fear of losing intellectual flexibility and freedom. But what if these fears are misplaced? Providing a fresh look at American Studies in practice, this book contends that a shared set of “rules” can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User’s Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field as well as useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory.

• Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• The Sound and the Fury (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
• Indians in Unexpected Places (Cultureamerica)
• American Studies: An Anthology
• Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)
• Jasmine
• Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them