Please find below contents listing for the first issue of the new journal, Comparative American Studies. To sign up to receive these FREE contents listings on a regular basis, to find out submission details and subscription information, please visit our website: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/j0487.html ********************************************* Comparative American Studies An International Journal Volume 01 Issue 01 - Publication Date: 1 March 2003 Editorial Articles US Americans and 'Us' Americans: South American perspectives on Comparative American Studies Sonia Torres Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab031698.html Figuring the future in Los(t) Angeles Hazel V. Carby Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab031699.html Globalization, spectral aesthetics and the global soul: Tracking some 'uncanny' paths to trans-Pacific globalization Rob Wilson University of California at Santa Cruz, USA http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab031724.html What is so bad about being rich? The representation of wealth in American culture Winfried Fluck John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab031700.html 'Who speaks for us?': Bharati Mukherjee's fiction and the politics of immigration Helena Grice University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab031701.html Locating an American romantacism: 'Emerson, Cavell, 'Experience' David Greenham Nottingham Trent University, UK http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033068.html Reviews Taylor, Andrew, Henry Janes and the Father Question, reviewed by Gert Buelens Muller, Eric, L., Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in Worlf War II, reviewed by Terry Caesar Duggan, Lisa, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook Davis, Jane, The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature, reviewed by Rachel van Duyvenbode Kitch, Carolyn, The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, reviewed by Christine Bold Clarke, Erskine, Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country, reviewed by Bryan F. Le Beau Pippin, Robert B., Henry James and Modern Moral Life, reviewed by Olga Antsyferova Ziff, Larzer, Return Passages: Great American Travel Writings: 1780-1910, reviewed by Pere Gifra-Adroher Robbins, William G. and James C. Foster (eds), Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good, reviewed by Angela Schwarz Peterson, Dale E., Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul, reviewed by Miglena Todorova Wallach, Rick (ed.), Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cornac McCarthy, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook Bonsall, Thomas E., More Than They Promised: The Studebacker Story, reviewed by Jennifer Clark ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html