Download or read book Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts written by Wilfried Raussert and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions engage with literary, political and cultural practices in America, past and present, set out to transcend long established paradigms of an American "exceptionalism" or critical approaches that hold on to the notion of a core Americanness as a single nationalist mythology of the United States. "America" then functions as a signifier that is configured in and by its presence outside and beyond the national borders of the United States of America. The overall thrust of our volume draws upon concepts of the "New American Studies," especially "Post-Nationalist American Studies."