Description: A study of the American imaginary in transnational America
Brief description: Laura Bieger is junior professor of North American culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Imaginary and its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn, co-edited with Ramón Saldívar and Johannes Voelz.
Review Quotes: "The book's final section on "Political Imaginaries" brings Fluck, Pease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Chris Newfield together in what amounts to a jazz riff on the state of the imaginative nation. If we ever wondered why we are in this business of American Studies after the transnational turn, this section reminds us of the whimsical provocation, play, and sheer imagination that can, under the best of circumstances, guide us to unexpected places of ideation and creation."-- "American Literary History"