Fragments of America: Response to Marius Jucan

BRIAN T. EDWARDS
Northwestern University (Evanston-Chicago, U.S.A.)


Abstract
In response to Marius Jucan’s contribution to this issue, this paper presents a differing account of the much-discussed crisis of American Studies. Particular note is taken of the effects of sociocultural globalization on the discipline, and of directions in the field which have emerged recently inside the United States and in other contexts.

Keywords: American Studies, sociocultural globalization, American Century, vernacular tradition, cosmopolitan tradition

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