New American Studies - 9780816635788

New American StudiesAuthor(s): John Carlos Rowe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816635788, 978-0816635788\nSynopsis\nA clarion call for a more theoretically and politically informed approach to American Studies\n\nJohn Carlos Rowe, a leading American Studies scholar, has examined his field of study and declared it not ready for the twenty-first century. In The New American Studies, Rowe demands a reinvention of the discipline that includes a commitment to making it more theoretically informed, and he draws on the work of cultural critics, postmodernist theorists, and scholars in ethnic, gender, gay, and media studies. Rowe asserts that with American Studiess strong history of social criticism and practical pedagogy it is an easy leap to the type of progressive commitments characteristic of these areas of scholarship.\n\nThe New American Studies is a compelling combination of theory and a.