Mid Sweden University

Scholarly venue for American Studies in Scandinavia

This thematic issue of American Studies in Scandinavia brings together four articles ghat examine processes of belonging and membership in the Latino/a population, i.e., the population of Latin American descent, living in the United States. From different theoreticqal angles, and with diverse wmpirical foci, the articles attempt to go beyond a traditional emphasis on processes of integration and assimilation by addressing the shifting and often conflicting notions and narratives of cross- and transnational membership that emerge as part of the movement of the Latino/a population into the mainstream of society.  

Scholarly venue for American Studies in Scandinavia

introduction to volume of 140 pages with the special topic devoted to Latino/a studies and related to the corrido as a literary genre in Eduardo Viaña's novel El Corrido de Dante, to the ideological coordinates describing illegal immigration, to Mexican immigration in the U.S. South, to Cuba, the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, and to transnational space, and also to kinship in Native American writing, as well as U.S. literary history

Introduction to volume of 107 pages related to Somali immigration in the Twin Cities and community service, the impact of the American short story on Swedish literature, the relationship between Dos Passos and Hemingway, memory and history in vampire novel The Gilda Stories and TV series True Blood on the 19th century, and critique of work in Charles Bukowski's Factotum.

Introduction to articles, speech, and reviews out of the interdisciplinarity of American Studies as a knowledge area, related to Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the game of narration in Paul Auster's writing, sisu as a central makrer of Finnish-American culture, the construction of masculinity in Gloria Naylor's novel The Men of Brewster Place, and the the liberal label in American politics

introduction to volume of 122 pages related to Chinese immigration into the United States, 1868-1904, cooperation or conflict in the transatlantic relations post Bush, satire and political discourse in Warren Beatty's Bulworth, whiteness in Todd Haynes' Safe, Robert Coover's novel The Public Burning and history as a partisan, the maiden in the tower as a motif in Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49