Discourses of Americanness Bridging non-fictional divides - Cristina Chevesan Cristina Baniceru

Uniquely challenging as it has been 2020 has proved a year of profound reconsideration reinterpretation and reevaluation of essential world values. The fifth volume in the West University of Timisoara s American Studies series stands proof of this well-coagulated academic team s theoretical concern for and practical preoccupation with the contemporary understanding of Americanness and its discourses as they resonate throughout the world not solely within but also without the United States. Thus despite adverse circumstances the latest addition to the growing collection of student essays Discourses of Americanness Bridging Non -Fictional Divides comprises the largest number of contributions so far. The nineteen texts have been ided into four large sections which draw a most interesting interactive map of the American Studies B. A. M. A. and Ph. D. students critical readings and responses across a wide cultural spectrum.