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“Sing[ing] of the Middle Way:” Michael McClure’s Venture for a New Mode of Thought Between Science and Mysticism

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2018
This article examines the epistemological concerns of Michael McClure’s poem “Double Moire for Francis Crick” (2010). Beyond showcasing McClure’s persistent interest in the natural sciences as well as in the Chinese and Japanese mystical traditions, this
Stefan Benz
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From Criminal to Rehabilitated Prison Reformer: Gradual Identity Transformation in Charles McGregor's Prison Autobiography "Up from the Walking Dead"

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2018
This article examines how social roles are narratively constructed in Charles McGregor’s prison autobiography Up from the Walking Dead“ (1978) and investigates which significance the protagonist’s prison experiences have for this process.
Katharina Matuschek
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Stereotypically Autistic? Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction [PDF]

Zugleich: Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2024. Die Dissertation wurde unter folgendem Titel veröffentlicht: Stereotypically Autistic. On the Stereotypicality of Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction.
Hesse, Eva Charlotte
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Memory, Identity and Political Communities – The Discursive Construction of the Transatlantic Alliance

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2019
The transatlantic community has, from its inception, been described as a community of like-minded nations that is held together not only by interests but also by shared values. These are based on a common identity – of what Karl W.
Sarah Sporys
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The Vagaries of E Pluribus Unum: First-Person Plural Narration in Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and TaraShea Nesbit's The Wives of Los Alamos

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2018
The ‘we’ narrator has been witnessing an apparent upswing in 21st-century U.S. fiction. Yet, still only a comparably small number of context-focused analyses have discussed this narrative voice so far.
Michaela Beck
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Ein Bündnis von Medizin und Geisteswissenschaften — nicht nur für Demenz. [PDF]

Procare, 2021
Jerusalem A, Goldgruber J, Pichler G.
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Between Zero Dark Thirty and Camp X-Ray: Changing Gender Dynamics of Contemporary American War Film

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2019
War films play a substantial role in American society by cultivating an understanding of military politics. I argue that the use of different narrative strategies encouraging spectator identification within the US American war films establishes the ...
Ali Yasar Tuzcu
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Animacy, Agency and Animatedness: The Human-Animal Transformation in Sorry to Bother You

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
This paper investigates the racialized affect of ‘animatedness’ (Ngai) as presented in the film Sorry to Bother You (2018). In this dark comedy, workers’ subjectivities are constituted by their labor: Their subjectivity is presented as plastic, by ...
Maria Menzel
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On Doing American Studies Today: The 2017 Postgraduate Forum

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2018
Editorial for COPAS 19.1 (2018), co-written by Helen Gibson, Anne Potjans, Simon Rienäcker, and Jiann-Chyng ...
Jiann-Chyng Tu, Helen Gibson, Anne Potjans, Simon Rienäcker   +3 more
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Politics of Anger and Trauma Disclosure in Michelle Bowdler’s Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto (2020)

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
This article focuses on the memoir manifesto as an intersection of forms and analyzes Michelle Bowdler’s Is Rape a Crime? (2020) as being representative of this subgenre in the current ‘manifesto moment.’ Bowdler as author narrates through the lens of ...
Laura Handl
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