aspeers 19 (2026)

DOI: 10.54465/aspeers.19

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Contents

Annika M. Schadewaldt
Katja Schmieder		Foreword
2026 EditorsIntroduction: Contested Terrains: Reflecting on Resistance in American Studies
Adam AnzelThe Contours of Conservative Populism in J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016)
Robert Hayes IIAll the Feels: Affective Language and Counter-Resistance in American HR Discourse on Quiet Quitting
Jana Luckhardt“A Good Meal Always Makes You Feel a Little More Human”: Gendering the Cannibal and Embodying Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Michéle Maria FastHer Image and Her Flesh: Phenomenology, the Haptic, and the Image of Woman—A Comparative Study of Charles Vidor’s Gilda and Jane Campion’s The Piano
Alexander Hackel-JohnsonChthulucene Complications in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
Martin LütheResisting Resistance? Hip Hop Studies, Nostalgia, and the Underground
Hannah MichellNarratives of Resistance: A Dialogue with Hannah Michell

Editorial Team 

The 2026 editors are Lisa-Marie Apel, Emilia Bartoschik, Lina F. V. Brülhart, Mario De Luca, Ludwig Große, Florian Gruhl, Paul Haller, Jessica Kersten, S. Komulainen, Tom Lifshitz, Elisabeth Charlotte Annemarie Lüder, Franziska Schmidt, Livia M. Wolf, and Noelle Ziersch.

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