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Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites research. It can be argued that the growing presence of centenarians' autobiographies on book markets across the globe may by rooted in the public's desire for positive images of aging, in contrast to the image of inevitable decay.

In den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren hat das Gebiet der Medical Humanities die Geisteswissenschaften von Grund auf verändert. Aber wie genau kann er aussehen, dieser Dialog zwischen Literatur und Lebenswissenschaften? Dieses Buch geht von der Annahme aus, dass die Trennung in die ,zwei Kulturen' der Natur- und der Geisteswissenschaften der Vergangenheit angehört. Es fragt vielmehr, wie diese beiden Disziplinbereiche sich gegenseitig befruchten können. Es beleuchtet das Verhältnis zwischen Medical Humanities und Ökokritik, zwischen Literatur und Biopiraterie, zwischen Hirnforschung und der amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Damit versucht der vorliegende Band eine Bestandsaufnahme all der Felder, die bislang oft unter der Bezeichnung ,Medical Humanities' subsumiert worden sind: von der Narrativen Medizin über die Environmental Humanities bis hin zu einem Dialog zwischen Literatur und Neurowissenschaften.

This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay’s ‘Beyond the Silence’, Temple Grandin’s ‘Thinking in Pictures’, or Michael J. Fox’s ‘Lucky Man’ show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the “two cultures” of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.

This volume explores the complexity, vibrancy, and contemporaneity of indigenous cultures today. It understands the concept of “Comparative Indigenous Studies” in such a transnational and interdisciplinary sense. It links indigenous communities in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, from law, economics, cultural geography, and medicine, this book highlights the ways in which indigenous cultures have resisted, time and again, the myth of their own disappearance.

Indigenität wird meist als sagenumwobene Historie untergegangener Kulturen betrachtet. Aktuell sind aber eher nicht so verklärte Bewegungen einer Re-Ethnisierung, größtenteils Neukonstruktion fast untergegangener Kultur nach forcierten Prozessen einer Zivilisierung von ‚Wilden‘ zu beobachten. Wie stellt sich die heutige Situation indigener Kulturen im eigenen Selbstverständnis und ihrer rechtlichen Situation dar? Wie wird Indigenität im literarischen, filmischen Kontext postkolonial konstruiert bzw. kulturkritisch analysiert? Welche Entwicklungen vollziehen sich im Rahmen eines neuen Selbstverständnisses, einer Emanzipation durch Re-Ethnisierung im gegenwärtigen Umfeld meist westlich geprägter Gesellschaften? Aus Perspektive der Psychologie, der Rechtswissenschaften, der Kulturgeographie, der Amerikanistik, der Theaterwissenschaft als auch der Ethnologie und Kulturanthropologie werden Situationen umschrieben, die so in der Wissenschaft bislang noch nicht entsprechende Betrachtung erfahren haben, und den Zugang zu einem neuen Forschungsfeld eröffnen.

This book explores a remarkable parallelism in American literary and legal histories: the parallel between naturalism and naturalization. At the turn of the twentieth century, with the influx of unprecedented waves of immigration, the judiciary is at a loss to define who is „white“ and who is not. In the courts of law, „whiteness“ becomes a performance of cultural assimilability rather than a biological fact. It is this same cultural code of whiteness, this book argues, around which the literature of naturalism revolves by engaging in naturalization debate of its own.

Indien ist ein paradoxes Land mit fünfzehn gesprochenen Sprachen, sieben großen Religionen und der größten Demokratie der Welt.

As a discipline, American Studies has certainly been one of the most dynamic fields not only of research but also of teaching. This volume argues that one reason for this dynamism lies in the refusal of American Studies practitioners, both in the U. S. and around the globe, to separate life from art and criticism. Fields such as postmodernism, life writing, ethnic studies, or ecocriticism derive their potential precisely from the politicized interrelation of personal experience and critical practice. To acknowledge this potential, many scholars of American Studies explore the complex ways in which their own location may inform their work. It is from this tension between lived experience and the textualization of this experience that American Studies derives its greatest productivity. This volume sets out to trace some of these issues, highlighting the many ways in which American Studies scholars have been „living American Studies,“ extending their fields beyond the narrow boundaries of traditional academia.

This era is characterized by an unprecedented flow of goods, capital, and labor, challenging the boundaries of disciplines and encompassing spaces beyond the nation-state. This volume explores the implications of this opening of national borders for American and Canadian studies. However, caution is warranted; the concept of transnational studies risks overlooking the realities of border policing, especially post-September 11, 2001, and may obscure the nuances of citizenship rights and their absence. The denationalization of North American Studies presents a complex dynamic, highlighting that the nation-state remains relevant while also emphasizing the potential benefits of transcending borders, particularly in minority studies through transnational alliances. Additionally, the volume examines the notion of "Americanness." In a global landscape where U.S. influence pervades politics and culture, there is a danger that other cultural expressions may be perceived as mere imitations, or "virtually American," rather than authentic in their own right. This perspective necessitates a reassessment to foster a more dialogic understanding of what "America" signifies in today's world.