What is America one encounters and studies in a postmodern age? Is it a discourse? A bounded collective identity or a set of manifold, changing, and contingent identities? A fiction? An idea? A history? A place? If place has its say, are we talking about a nation, or several nations within a nation? And who are ‘Americans’? What do they share in common, what is their ‘American-ness’?

Thursday, December 14, 2006

SEMESTER FINAL:

By Saturday, 8:00pm, I need to hear from each and every one of you (via blog comments) regarding the texts you plan on using for the first two parts of the test; the organizing principle and the owning-a-term: I do not need an exaplanation of why and how you plan on using them, but need to see/her/read some titles.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Online Resources:

http://eserver.org/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

http://ipl.org/

http://humbul.ac.uk/

http://www.LitEncyc.com/

http://www.oed.com/

Now, another important point in terms of research: LIBRARIES.

For instance, by becoming a member of the British Council, you get not only the chance to borrow amazing books/texts from their resposite, but also an electronic account, which affords you the ability to use multiple databases, in all fields of interest.