Spotlights
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
- The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
- Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
SpotlightRead MoreThis new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The...
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The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
SpotlightRead MoreThis collection of studies aims to provide an overview of the intersection of migration and U.S. history—without claiming to be an exhaustive survey of this very broad field—and represents a well-researched, interesting, and detailed investigation of issues related to the correlation of migration and politics. The prevailing mode of analysis, which explores attitudes, mentalities, and how they shape the political arena, works well and represents a valid historiographical choice on the part of the author. The sections dealing with the United States within the chapter on global border...
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Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
SpotlightRead MoreThe topic of the 2023 conference was Nomadisms, a concept that provided a pro-active, large academic platform that helped rebuild lost ties, find new and strengthen the existing ones. The topic also alluded to the circumstances of the partnership communities of Canadian and Hungarian scholars, alternatively moving between Szeged and Winnipeg in the past decades but also the the exchange of ideas, projects, texts that happened between and among colleages throughout the years.
