Ebook: Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Imaginary and Its Worlds: An Introduction -- Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, Johannes Voelz -- Part I: Literary Imaginaries -- 1. Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America RAMoN SALDiVAR -- 2. The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary LAWRENCE BUELL -- 3. Imaginaries of American Modernism Heinz Ickstadt -- Part II: Social Imaginaries -- 4. William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries HERWIG FRIEDL.;The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodological and theoretical groundwork for American studies scholarship in the transnational era and opening new arenas for conceptualizing formations of ima.