“Gracefully stitching one’s own traditions onto the fabric of the national and / or culturally dominant cloth and by doing so highlighting one’s previous omission, makes it impossible for anyone to ever look again at the source material in quite the same way again” says author Caryl Phillips in this presentation on the Star Spangled Banner.
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Wai Chee Dimock‘s radical new reading of William Faulkner, at the Rupture, Crisis, Transformation conference on the future of American Studies held at Birkbeck in November 2014.
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What will the future archeologist and the future historian make of American in the 21st Century?
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What is the role of technology in contemporary geopolitics at the end of the ‘American Century’? Is technology pushing us too fast? Do we need time to catch up?
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