Sumários

Work with keywords.

26 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Work with keywords from Burgett and Hendler, eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies (2007 and 2020), Julian Wolfrey's Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory (2001); Raymond Williams, Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society (2nd ed., 1983) and New Keywords by Grossman, Morris and Bennett (2005).

Keywords: Literature, Gender, Identity.

White Trash in the context of de Crèvecoeur’s "What then is an American"

24 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Presentation of the socio-cultural context of the seven year (French and Indian in the new world) war in Europe and the New World to help contextualize the sentiments de Crèvecoeur may have been feeling when writing "What then is an American" because of his French aristocratic background.

Discussion of the conditions in Jamestown for the first indentured workers and then discussion of the opening sections of Isenberg's White Trash within this context.

History / genalogy of American Studies.

19 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

History / genalogy of American Studies according to John Carlos Rowe, The New American Studies (2002).

Analyisis of topic sentences and keywords in Letter III (What is an American) from Hector St. John Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).

New beginnings: Americam culture and identity

17 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Student led discussion of Campbell and Kean's chapter "New beginnings:Americam culture and identity".

Intertwined with a discussion of the concepts behind the proposals and of the books and films indicated in the text.

Discussion the introduction to "American Cultural Studies" (Campbell and Kean 2016)

12 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Student-led discussion of the text by Beatriz Bicudo.

Major keywords and problematic concepts: exceptionality, unity, hybridity, freedom, equality and diversity.

Scope and development of American Studies.