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Issue 1 (2008)

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Contents

The inaugural issue of is a snapshot issue, designed to give an impression of the range of graduate-level American studies in Europe. It contains six academic and five artistic contributions, as well as one piece by a professor in the field.

Prof. Anne Koenen,
Sebastian M. Herrmann 		Foreword
Prof. Udo Hebel Greeting by the General Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies
2008 Editors Introduction
Judith Freiin von Falkenhausen The Impact of Sigmund Freud's Clark Lectures on American Concepts of the Self
Rosi Smith Seeing Through the Bell Jar: Distorted Female Identity in Cold War America
Stuart Noble Don DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Space: An Interpretation of Cosmopolis
Johannes Barthel Hybridity as a “Narrative of Liberation” in Trevor D. Rhone’s Old Story Time
Frank Cyba “An Older Light Than Ours”: Faulkner’s Reflections on Race and Racism in Light in August
Konstantin Butz Rereading American Hardcore: Intersectional Privilege and the Lyrics of Early Californian Hardcore Punk
Prof. Marina Camboni
 Essay: Two John Smiths and a Tent
Jonathon Dore Photo: Museum of Communism
Myronn Hardy
 Poetry: Blackberries
David Mills Poetry: Illiterate Fish
Kathrin Zöller
 Collage: House of Fiction
Recording: mind sweeper (online only)

Editing Team

The 1 (2008) editing team is: Heather Carmody, Michelle Glauser, Sebastian M. Herrmann, Alexandra Pitzing, Lisa Sylvia Schönmeier, and Lars Weise. For more information on the 2008 editing team, see the project page.

Regional Distribution of Contributions

Regional distribution of contributions

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