Introduction: The study of the American problems / Russ Castronovo & Susan Gillman -- Rogue states and emergent disciplines / Srinivas Aravamudan -- Migrant archives : new routes in and out of American studies / Rodrigo Lazo -- Toxicity and the consuming subject / Nan Enstad -- Past burning : the (post-)traumatic memories of (post-)queer theory / Christopher Castiglia -- Paranoid empire : specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib / Anne McClintock -- Taking the measure of the black Atlantic / Kenneth W. Warren -- Cicero's ghost : the Atlantic, the enemy, and the laws of war / Ian Baucom -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimock -- American studies in an age of extinction / Robert S. Levine.
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Title
States of emergency [electronic resource] : the object of American studies / edited by Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.