The Unifying Aspects of Cultures
SECTION:
Frontier Metamorphoses: Americanization and Otherness
Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Papers to:
Email: Albena Bakratcheva
(Sofia)
Section language: English
> Speakers
ABSTRACT: "The line of most rapid and effective Americanization",
as Frederick Jackson Turner defined the frontier in 1893, will
be discussed here in its recent transformations that mostly shed
its physical dimensions towards the realm of constant metaphorical/cultural
transitions. Issues like borders/borderlands, map knowledge/place-sense,
unnatural/natural boundaries, "machine/garden" contradictions,
space/time frontiers, trans/crossing cultures, place-relations/self-identifications,
otherness (non)recognized, as well as others, concerning present
literary/intellectual preoccupations resulting from extreme globalization
awareness, are mostly welcome.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SECTIONS
- Albena Bakratcheva (New Bulgarian University, Sofia): Metamorphoses
of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of Americanization
[ABSTRACT]
- Manuel Broncano (University of León, Spain): The Southwest
as Allegory: Blood Meridian and the Frontier Grotesque
[ABSTRACT]
- Heinz Ickstadt (Kennedy-Institut, FU Berlin): American Frontiers
and German Transformations - the Frontier as a Metaphor of Cultural
Change [ABSTRACT]
- Roger L. Nichols (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA): Acculturation
and "Otherness": Native American Experiences
[ABSTRACT]
- Anders Olsson (Mid-Sweden University, Harnosand, Sweden):
A Metaphor for the Institution? The Frontier and U.S. Literature
[ABSTRACT]
- Russell Reising (University of Toledo, Ohio, USA): Phillis
Wheatley: Trauma, Memory, and Americanization [ABSTRACT]
- Thomas H. Schaub (University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA):
Melting Pot and Hybridity: Two Models of Cultural Theory
[ABSTRACT]
- Richard J. Schneider (Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, USA):
The American West as Global Frontier in Henry David Thoreau's
"Walking" [ABSTRACT]
- Plamen S. Tzvetkov (New Bulgarian University, Sofia): The
Wall That Fell Down Flat: Some Political Habits in Southern Europe
before and after 1989 [ABSTRACT]
- Chris Warhurst (Scottish Centre for Employment Research,
University of Strathclyde): Soft Power: The Force Behind the
Cavalry of the New American Frontier? [ABSTRACT]