Essays in American Studies • Cross-cultural perspectives, Съставител: Весела Кацарова/Vesela Katsarova, Полис | Polis Publishers, 2001

Essays in American Studies • Cross-cultural perspectives

Автор: Съставител: Весела Кацарова/Vesela Katsarova
Раздел: Английски речници, Учебна литература, Педагогика
Издателство: Полис | Polis Publishers
Народност: българска
ISBN:
първо издание, 2001 год.
меки корици, 192 стр.
Цена: 5,20 лв

Edited by:Madelain Danova
The book is published with the support of the Academic Foundation for English and American Studies, Sofia

This is the second book in the American Studies Series that has gathered the work of various academics from the field of American Studies who have been connected in one or another way to Bulgaria. This has given the specific focus of most of the essays, namely the cross-cultural approach to important issues from the fields of literary and cultural studies, historiography, political science and translation and reception theory. The essays look at such contested notions of today as race, ethnicity, national identity, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, gender, ideology, crisis-resolution and electoral practices. The cross-cultural perspective helps to overcome the rigid boundaries of the separate academic fields in search of the productive interdisciplinary overlappings within the humanities.
The collection will be of interest both to researchers and students from various disciplines and especially to those interested in the rapidly growing American Studies field. It can be used by university teachers and students alike to enrich their discussions in American and Bulgarian literature and culture, political science and history classes.

CONTRIBUTORS:
Vitana Kostadinova
Betty Grinberg
Milena Katsarska
Madeleine Danova
Sneja Gunew
Alexandra Glavanakova
Kornelia Slavova
James Deutsch
Vernon L. Pedersen
Kostadin Grozev
Nadia Boyadjieva

CONTENTS
Introduction - Madeleine Danova
Vitana Kostadinova
Images of America or the American Presence
in the Bulgarian Revival Period
Boukitza Greenberg
Bulgarski Knizhitsi and the First Translation of Uncle Tom s Cabin
Milena Katsarska
Construction of National Space Along the Railroad
in American and Bulgarian Literature
Madeleine Danova
Ethnic Ghosts and Supernatural Forces: The Notion of Race and the
Occult in the USA and Bulgaria at the Beginning of the 20th century
Sneja Gunew
Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism: Between Race and Ethnicity
Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva
A Post-Totalitarian Mis/Reading of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Kornelia Slavova
Disruptive Presence: Contemporary American
Women Playwrights on the Bulgarian Stage
James I. Deutsch
Folklore of the Academy
Vernon L. Pedersen
Russian Reds, Radical Roustabouts, and Unruly Women: Communism,
Gender and American Anxiety in the Early Depression
Kostadin Grozev
Left and Right in American Elections: The 1972 Campaign, the Idea
of Political Reform and the Left Wing of the Democratic Party
Nadya Boyadzhieva
The US and the Dissolution of Former Yugoslavia:
The Case of Bosna and Herzegovina
List of Contributors