EAAS Biennial Conference Volumes and Other EAAS Publications
Since 1957, a total of 33 conference volumes, monographs, and other collections of articles have been published on behalf of the EAAS.
Publications
Publications
European Journal of American Studies
The European Journal of American Studies is the official journal of the European Association for American Studies.
Book Reviews
Since 2006, reviews of European monographs and essay collections in the field of American Studies appear in the European Journal of American Studies. Please go to http://ejas.revues.org/.
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Other books by EAAS scholars
This section advertises the book-length publications of scholars affiliated with the EAAS member associations. This will be limited to books written in English, available by on-line international order. More recent annoucements are listed at the top.
Book reviews by EAAS members have appeared on this site until 2005. Since 2006, reviews of European monographs and essay collections in the field of American Studies appear in the European Journal of American Studies. Please go to http://ejas.revues.org/.
Delioglanis, Vasileios N. Narrating Locative Media. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 317 pages. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27473-2.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to locative media, concentrating on specific authors and practitioners whose works exist in print and digital manifestations. The book shapes the discourse for an extensive theorization of locative media works from a narrative perspective. It investigates how different genres ⸺ print novels, fictional and non-fictional locative narratives, locative games, and audio texts ⸺ are affected by locative media practice. Part I examines print manifestations of locative media in William Gibson’s fiction. Part II discusses e-book and audio book locative narrative experimentations, suggesting ways to create and categorize locative texts. Drawing on hypertext theory, Part III views Niantic locative games as an instantiation of locative media storytelling practice that challenges digital narrativity. This study captures a transition from a print-based textuality to a digital locative textuality and culture, and proposes flexible innovative models of interpreting narrative textual forms emerging from the convergence of locative and narrative media.
Ciugureanu, Adina, and Eduard Vlad, editors. Eco-Consciousness in American Culture: Imperatives in the Age of the Anthropocene. Peter Lang, 2023. 306 pages. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1389121.
The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an ecocritical perspective. In the former case, they analyze effects of the present ecological crises (i.e. climate change and pandemics), the emergence and development of environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. In the latter case, they offer readings of American literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries as significant case studies.
Feleki, Despoina N. Stephen King in the New Millennium Gothic Mediations on New Writing Materialities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.ISBN:978-1-5275-0407-3.
Glavanakova, Alexandra. Transcultural Imaginings. Translating the Other, Translating the Self in Narratives about Migration and Terrorism. Sofia: KX – Critique and Humanism Publishing House, 2016. 250 pages. ISBN: 978-954-587-201-3.
Meyer, Sabine N. We Are What We Drink: The Temperance Battle in Minnesota. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-252-03935-5
A powerful study of identity formation and the power of place in the shaping of history
In We Are What We Drink, Sabine N. Meyer eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest.
Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with each other during the long temperance battle in Minnesota. Her deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with respect to temperance activism provides a rare interethnic history of the movement. At the same time, she shows how women engaged in temperance work as a way to form public identities and reforges the largely neglected, yet vital link between female temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, Meyer reflects on the continuities and changes between how the movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement’s more often studied roles in the East. She also gives a nuanced portrait of the culture clash between a comparatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul–forces supported by government, community, and business institutions heavily invested in keeping the city wet.