Books by Susanne Hamscha
Even a global political watershed such as the end of the Cold War seems to have left a fundamenta... more Even a global political watershed such as the end of the Cold War seems to have left a fundamental characteristic of cultural relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world unchanged: American popular culture still stirs up emotion, its products, artifacts, and practices entangling their consumers in affective encounters characterized by feelings of fascination, excitement, or even wholesale rejection. What is it that continues to make 'American' popular culture popular or unpopular? Is it because 'American' culture is still cool? Which role does Cool play in the consumers' affective encounters with 'America'?
This volume of essays offers new insights on the post-Cold-War dissemination of American popular culture, exploring the manifold ways in which Cool has emerged as an elusive yet determining factor of an American culture gone global
The Fiction of America "America" is a fiction that constitutes itself in the interplay of the cul... more The Fiction of America "America" is a fiction that constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. In her study, Susanne Hamscha juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culturepairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spiderman, and Hester Prynne with Madonna. She reveals "foundational scenarios," recurring cultural patterns and performative acts that produce the Americanness of American culture. The juxtaposed readings of these cultural texts disclose disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of "America," which trouble the notion of Americanness in the very moment of its articulation.
Papers by Susanne Hamscha
If there is one thing in thls world that I hate, it's losers. I despise them," then-Govemor Arnol... more If there is one thing in thls world that I hate, it's losers. I despise them," then-Govemor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared to a group of high school students, expressing a firm beliefln success and faüure äs the results ofindividual action and ambiüon (cf. Halberstam 2011, 5). Himself embodying the American Dream äs an immigrant who "made it big m Ameiica,"
Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, 2016
Rereading The Machine in the Garden. Ed. Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Florian Seldlmeier. Frankfurt/Main: Campus., 2014
.” The European History of English Studies: Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe. Ed. Renate Haas
ReFractions of Bob Dylan. Ed. Eugen Banauch. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2015. 98-111-
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Books by Susanne Hamscha
This volume of essays offers new insights on the post-Cold-War dissemination of American popular culture, exploring the manifold ways in which Cool has emerged as an elusive yet determining factor of an American culture gone global
Papers by Susanne Hamscha
This volume of essays offers new insights on the post-Cold-War dissemination of American popular culture, exploring the manifold ways in which Cool has emerged as an elusive yet determining factor of an American culture gone global