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European Journal of American Culture - Volume 23, Issue 3, 2004
Volume 23, Issue 3, 2004
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What are the implications of the virtual for the human? An analytical ethics of identity in pop culture narratives
By Scott Loren‘What are the implications of the virtual for the human?’ provides a brief analysis of contemporary crises in identity as they are related to authenticity. It does this by way of a primarily psychoanalytical reading of four narratives about artificial beings which are representative of (if not definitive within) the genre: 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI, Blade Runner, and Frankenstein. By pitting the human against the artificial being, we are presented with certain difficulties in determining alterity and in determining what these very difficulties represent to us.
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The Bard of American domesticity: John Updike reconsidered in terms of transnationalism
More LessThis essay attends to the recent interest in transnationalism within the discipline of American Studies as focused, primarily, upon the nineteenth century. It argues that studies of transnationalism must expand to attend to those later, twentiethcentury writers which America designates as representative. John Updike is identified as such a writer and his Rabbit Angstrom series is reconsidered as akin to the epic, a quintessentially European form. Updike is re-evaluated as part of a long lineage of revolutionary epicists which include Virgil and Joyce.
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From Little Big Man to little green men: the captivity scenario in American culture
By Andrew PanayThis paper seeks to link the seemingly diverse genres of the Indian captivity narrative and the alien abduction scenario. Whilst the Indian captivity narrative is plainly derived from first-hand accounts and can demonstrate a historical development based on the actuality of the experiences it describes, the alien abduction scenario though protesting its objective basis cannot. Rather than rejecting the validity of the alien abduction scenario on this account, the following attempts to account for the claims to reality of the alien abduction narrative by arguing that it exists in a historical continuum with the Indian captivity narrative. The narrative functions as part of a greater historical myth system in which national values of community safety and security, national progress and vitality and the preservation of core values against hostile enemies are central components. I argue that in the twentieth century the alien abduction narrative re-imagines these core concerns and in the context of exploration of the new frontier of space, provides for a re-energizing of the traditional captivity narrative, one in which abductees are positioned as colonists in perilous existence on the ‘final frontier’.
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‘Much unseen is also here’: John Brinckerhoff Jackson’s new western roadscapes
More LessThis article examines the legacy of John Brinckerhoff Jackson whose work on American cultural landscapes has had an immense direct and indirect influence on subsequent writers in a number of fields of American Studies. This article examines the western ‘roadscape’ in Jackson’s work as a hybrid, dialogical contact zone that offers a particularly relevant social vision of the New West as mobile and diasporic. In this respect, as in so many other aspects of his work, Jackson was both provocative and ahead of his time.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Clara Antonucci, R.J. Briand, Stephanie Munro, Tessa Roynon, Lincoln Geraghty, Alex Goode and John De LothLiterature and the Visual Arts in Twentieth-Century America, Michele Bottalico (ed.) (2002), Bari, Italy: Palomar, 210 pp., ISBN 88-87467-97-8 (pbk), £58.
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at The Right, Al Franken (2003), London: Allen Lane, 372 pp., ISBN 0 713 99790 7 (pbk), £12.
A Students’ Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present, Lovalerie King (2003), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, xvi + 219 pp., ISBN 0-8204-5521-0 (pbk), £21.
Love, Toni Morrison (2003), London: Chatto and Windus, 216 pp., ISBN 0701175109 (hbk), £16.99.
The American Horror Film: An Introduction, Reynold Humphries (2002), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, vi + 216 pp., ISBN 0748614168 (pbk), £16.99.
American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974, Trevor McCrisken (2003), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 248 pp., ISBN 8240108X (hbk), £50.
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity, R.M. Sentilles (2003), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 326 pp., ISBN 0521820707 (hbk), £45.
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Index - Volume 23
Campbell, N., ‘Much unseen is also here’: John Brinckerhoff Jackson’s new western roadscapes, pp. 217–231
Crockatt, R., No common ground? Islam, anti-Americanism and the United States, pp. 125–142
Epstein, J., Under America’s sign: two nineteenth-century British readings, pp. 95–109
Fabbrini, S., Layers of anti-Americanism: Americanization, American unilateralism and anti-Americanism in a European perspective, pp. 79–94
Ickstadt, H., Uniting a divided nation: Americanism and anti-Americanism in post-war Germany, pp. 157–170
Kusnír, J., Subversion of myths: high and low cultures in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White and Robert Coover’s Briar Rose, pp. 31–49
Loren, S., What are the implications of the virtual for the human? An analytical ethics of identity in pop culture narratives, pp. 173–185
Mitchell, R., The Confidence Man: performing the magic of modernity, pp. 51–62
Morley, C., The Bard of American domesticity. John Updike reconsidered in terms of transnationalism, pp. 187–200
Panay, A., From Little Big Man to little green men: the captivity scenario in American culture, pp. 201–216
Pells, R., From modernism to the movies. The globalization of American culture in the twentieth century, pp. 143–155
Ryan, D., Framing September 11: Rhetorical Device and Photographic Opinion, pp. 5–20
Ryan, D., Americanisation and anti-Americanism at the periphery. Nicaragua and the Sandinistas, pp. 111–124
Selby, N., Desiring texts: the erotics of domestic space in the poetry of Lyn Hejinian and Rosmarie Waldrop, pp. 21–29
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Volume 42 (2023)
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Volume 40 (2021)
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Volume 39 (2020)
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Volume 36 (2017)
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Volume 35 (2016)
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Volume 34 (2015)
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