Anglo-American Culture and Civilization

Study of US culture through the interdisciplinary approach of American Studies and Cultural Studies; students will be able to identify the relationships between texts and contexts (historical, political, and social) and discuss the concept of American identity from both a national and a transnational perspective.

Front lessons, 36 hours

American Studies: theories, methods, and concepts; evolution and relationship with Cultural Studies. Vision and revision of the myths that built the nation. Theoretical approaches that are relevant for the study of US cultural aspects (Structuralism/Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, social theories, Feminist criticism, Gender and Queer Studies, Age Studies, Postcolonialism, Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies, Border and Hemispheric Studies).

Primary works

30 texts of various kind and theme selected from the following anthology (the list will be provided at the beginning of the semester):

• A. Breidlid, F. C. Brøgger, O. T. Gulliksen, eds., American Culture. An Anthology, 2^nd edition, London and New York, Routledge, 2008.

Secondary works

• A. Dallmann, E. Boesenberg, M. Klepper, eds., Approaches to American Cultural Studies, London and New York, Routledge, 2016 (pp. 1-251).

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.