The Futures of American Studies

Acknowledgments vii Futures 1(44) Donald E. Pease Robyn Wiegman POSTHEGEMONIC What's in a Name? 45(31) Jan Radway The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique 76(17) Lisa Lowe The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia 93(18) Jose Esteban Munoz Manifest Domesticity 111(24) Amy Kaplan C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies 135(32) Donald E. Pease COMPARATIVIST Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies 167(16) John Carlos Rowe Salesman in Moscow 183(28) Dana Heller The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism 211(20) Winfried Fluck Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction 231(17) Walter Benn Michaels Color Blindness and Acting Out 248(21) Carl Gutierrez-Jones DIFFERENTIAL Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 269(36) Robyn Wiegman Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara's ``The Hammer Man'' 305(22) Lindon Barrett Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ``Our'' New America(s) 327(14) Ricardo L. Ortiz Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel 341(30) Nancy Bentley Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children 371(16) Gillian Brown American Studies in the ``Age of the World Picture'': Thinking the Question of Language 387(32) William V. Spanos COUNTERHEGEMONIC Work and Culture in American Studies 419(22) Michael Denning ``Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today'': American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements 441(20) George Lipsitz Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s) 461(25) Gunter H. Lenz American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class 486(24) Paul Lauter The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies 510(26) Eric Cheyfitz Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen 536(45) Russ Castronovo AFTERWORD ConsterNation 559(22) Dana D. Nelson Bibliography 581(28) Contributors 609(4) Index 613