Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies

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Sanja Runtić (ed)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4723-7788
Jadranka Zlomislić (ed)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4007-1877
Jelena Pataki Šumiga (ed)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-3156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/9789533791258

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This volume is the proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies: Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture, which was hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, on September 9–10, 2022. The conference, which brought together twenty-two early-career and senior scholars from across Europe, was co-organized by the Croatian Association for American Studies and two research centers affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek—Centre for Popular Culture and Center for North American Studies. The keynote lecture, Challenging “Karen” Stereotypes, was delivered by Kamilla Elliott, Professor of Literature and Media at Lancaster University. A rich variety of the contributions, in addition to the interdisciplinary scope and the relevance and appeal of the conference theme, provided an excellent forum for a productive exchange of ideas on the construction and persistence of stereotypes and stereotypical representations in the context of both global popular culture and the American cultural space.

The eight chapters contained in this volume aim to continue this conversation by exploring how the dynamics of making and breaking of stereotypes has been addressed in American cultural industries while illuminating a range of stereotypical tropes and processes of their production and dissemination as well as their wider (cross)cultural resonances, both historical and contemporary. Focusing on diverse cultural and semiotic practices and mediascapes—from fiction, drama, film, and music to social-media blog, podcast, and memoir—and approaching the subject matter from various theoretical and disciplinary angles, this volume explores not only the patterns inherent to the mobilization, cultural apprehension, and reinforcement of stereotypes but also mechanisms through which stereotypical attitudes, expectations, and representations can be circumvented, contested, and upended.

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Author Biographies

Sanja Runtić, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Sanja Runtić is Professor of American literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek and the current president of the Croatian Association for American Studies. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of American and Canadian studies, Native American literature, Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, and women’s studies. She is the co-author, with Marija Knežević, of Suvremena književnost američkih starosjedilaca (2013) and author of Vrijeme buđenja: (De)konstrukcija ženskog subjektiviteta u američkoj fikcionalnoj prozi na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljeće (2019). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Arizona (2003– 2004), a Research Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (2002) and Centro Studi Americani (2022), and Erasmus+ Fellow at the University of Central Oklahoma (2017) and Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (2023).

Jadranka Zlomislić, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Jadranka Zlomislić is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek. Growing up bicultural in the United States and then moving to Croatia has afforded her a unique cross-cultural perspective which has been beneficial for her research interests, which include American and British cultural studies, American academic fiction, translating culture, and the Croatian Glagolitic cultural heritage.

Jelena Pataki Šumiga, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Jelena Pataki  Šumiga holds a degree in English and Croatian language and literature as well as in translation. She is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Cultural Identity Studies and a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, where she teaches courses in old English literature and contemporary British dystopia. She is a member of the Croatian Association for the Study of English (CASE) and Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS), and her field of study is Anglophone literature and culture, with an emphasis on YA, fantasy, and dystopian literature. She is also a member of the Croatian Literary Translators Association and has translated more than fifty novels from English to Croatian for seven Croatian publishers.

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24. October 2023.

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Working Papers in American Studies

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1849-6180

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978-953-379-125-8

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2023