Futures of American Studies

Donald E. Pease is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and editor of a number of books including National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives and, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism, both published by Duke University Press.Robyn Wiegman is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments viiFutures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1Posthegemonic What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135Comparativist Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248Differential Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387Counterhegemonic Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419“Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536Afterword ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559Bibliography 581Contributors 609Index 613

“The Futures of American Studies shapes a farsighted and richly provocative argument about the intellectual space, time, and politics of the cultures of American studies. It's a millennial work.”-Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism “Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which ‘New Americanist’ scholarship is heading.”-Lawrence Buell, author of Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond