AMERICANA - E-Journal of American Studies in HungaryVolume V, Number 2, Fall 2009 - Special Issue is online
We are happy to announce that Volume V, Number 2, Fall 2009 is now available online! This special issue is the proceedings of the biennial conference of the Hungarian Association of American Studies, held in Szeged in October 2008. The collection of essays range from a discussion of stigma narratives in American literature to surfictional intratextuality, from tackling the relationship of American cinema and American Studies to Stephen King, from issues of Americanization and the publication of American literary texts in Romania to Edith Wharton and Mary Jamison, and from the colonization of Oregon and the investigation of American financial involvement in the Central Europe of 1920 to Native American discovery narratives. The cover art of the new AMERICANA issue is designed by Mihály Orodán, MA student at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary.
Volume V., Number 1., Spring 2009 is now online
We are happy to announce that Volume V., Number 1., Spring 2009, titled “Religions and the Production of Meaning,” is now online. The issue has been guest edited by Irén Annus (Department of American Studies, University of Szeged). As you can read it in her introduction to the issue,
This special issue of AMERICANA investigates the role religion has played in American culture and society. Religion has maintained considerable power in shaping manners of thinking and courses of action in the US on the level of both the individual and the collective. We sought studies that offer a critical re/assessment of this power as expressed in the particular ways, mechanisms, structures and dynamisms of religious rituals, visual arts, narratives and practices through which religions have shaped the production of meaning and have thus filtered into the secular and impacted various time periods and aspects of American life.
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