Part I. Theoretical approaches. A future for American Studies: the comparative U.S. cultures model
Postmodernity and the new American Studies
Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American Studies
The resistance to cultural studies in the United States
Part II. Textual examples. Hawthorne's ghost in Henry James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in the nineteenth century
Modern art and the invention of postmodern capital
Another modernism: poetic justice in Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead
Metavideo: fictionality and mass media in our postmodern economy
"Bringing it all back home": U.S. recyclings of the Vietnam War
Elián González, Cuban American détente, and the rhetoric of family values.
