Participation in American Culture and Society
1. Edition, 2024
346 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-8666-5
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 322
Available: 03.04.2024
Keywords:
amerikanische Gesellschaft, amerikanische Kultur, Teilhabe, Partizipation, U.S.A., Politik, Obdachlosigkeit, gender studies, Ausgrenzung, Rassismus, Historiographie, Geschichtssschreibung, Literaturwissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft, Hacker, Robert W., Black Natural Hair Movement, Naked Lunch (Film), Betts, Reginald Dwayne, Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Warren, Calvin, Black Lives Matter, Feminismus, voter suppression
Participation is a core value of the U.S.-American concept of the nation. The promise of participation encompasses full and equal access to participate in political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities. At the same time, exclusion from social participation has been salient in the history of the U.S., and recently even a decline in participation alongside growing polarization can be observed. The notion of participation, however, is more comprehensive than such a narrow political perspective may suggest. Forms of literary production and reception can likewise be understood as social practices of participation.
This volume sheds light on how participation has been debated in contemporary Americanist scholarship. The papers included explore the idea of participation beyond its function as a political principle in a democratic nation-state, which will help to understand in more detail the diverse relationships between the literary, the cultural, and the political.
Contrib. by: Philipp Löffler, Margit Peterfy, Natalie Rauscher, Welf Werner, Carol Anderson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Laura Kettel, Silke Braselmann, Helen A. Gibson, Andrew Erickson, Marcel Hartwig, Magda Majewska, Tim Lanzendörfer, Kirsten Twelbeck, Martin Butler, Juliann Knaus, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger
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