About this Book

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience.

• A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline
• Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism
• Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies
• Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies