Cross-cultural Readings of the United States

Authors

Jelena Šesnić (ed)
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-3490
Sven Cvek (ed)
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-9421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2014

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The essays assembled in this collection were presented at a one-day symposium entitled “Cross-cultural Readings of the United States” held in Zagreb on May 24, 2014. This symposium thus offered a platform for Croatian Americanists and the colleagues from the neighboring countries to present their current research in particular as it reflects our “local” readings, interpretations, and imagining of the United States in its present or past aspects. The local variants of conceiving the United States, as a powerful dispenser of images and cultural practices globally, included the views from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and the United States.

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Jelena Šesnić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English

Jelena Šesnić is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. Her books include From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature (Rodopi, 2007); Mračne žene: Prikazi ženstva u američkoj književnosti (1820-1860) [Dark women: Representations of womanhood in American literature (1820–1860)] (Leykam international, 2010); and, as editor, Siting America, Sighting Modernity: Essays in Honor of Sonja Bašić (FF-press, 2010). She is a co-founder and currently secretary of the Croatian Association for American Studies, a co-organizer of the annual Zagreb American Studies Workshop, and vice-president of the Association for American Studies in South-Eastern Europe.

Sven Cvek, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English

Sven Cvek works as an Assistant Professor in the American Studies program of the English Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is a collaborator on the project “A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia.” Since 2014, he has also been coordinating the research project “Continuity of Social Conflict in Croatia 1988–1991” in cooperation with the Center for Peace Studies (CMS) and the Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization (BRID). He has published a book, Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive (Rodopi, 2011), and co-edited Naša priča: 15 godina ATTACK!a [Our story: 15 years of ATTACK!] (2014). His broadest interest is in studying the place of culture in the process of historical and social change.

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Working Papers in American Studies

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2014