Open AccessLife Writing and American Studies
Author(s) -
Nassim W. Balestrini,
Silvia Schultermandl
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the austrian association for american studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2616-9533
DOI - 10.47060/jaaas.v1i1.74
Subject(s) - conversation , sociology , gender studies , american studies , cultural studies , race (biology) , life writing , context (archaeology) , epistemology , media studies , aesthetics , history , literature , anthropology , art history , art , biography , communication , philosophy , archaeology
This forum seeks to outline a variety of research prospects at the intersection of American studies and life-writing studies. The common thread that interrelates the individual contributions is spun and twisted out of various filaments of life writing theory which productively dialogue with current trajectories in American studies. The contributors to this special forum highlight what they consider particularly significant developments of the interdisciplinary field of life-writing studies. Taken together, they raise issues about representations of the self in film, literature, and popular culture from the vantage points of transnational American studies, feminist studies, intermediality studies, oceanic studies, affect theory, critical race theory, and queer theory. The result is a rich, multi-layered conversation about the future of American studies within the interdisciplinary and decidedly transnational context of life-writing studies.