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- Title: Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies (Essay)
- Author : Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 225 KB
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The new American Studies encompasses the various nations and communities in the Western Hemisphere and studies them in comparative, transnational, and, in some cases, "postnational" contexts. The field also deals with the global influences of these "Americas" and Canada, especially the powerful impact of the US around the world. It thus faces increasing opposition from traditional American Studies and "area studies" specialists in Latin American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and other disciplinary areas established at the beginning of World War II by the Ethnogeographic Board, an alliance of independent foundations, scholars, and governmental institutions. This article traces the historical consequences of the Ethnogeographic Board's work and how the new American Studies might overcome the provincialism of the "area studies" model. **********