Volume 60 (2015), Issue 4

Veronika Hofstätter, Sarah Schuetze, Wolfgang Helbich, Jonas Anderson, Dominik Nagl, Birte Christ, Christine Gerhardt, Charlotte A. Lerg, Manfred Berg, Sabrina Hüttner

Amerikastudien

Volume 60 (2015), Issue 4

Chance, Risk, Security: Approaches to Uncertainty in American Literature. Johannes Voelz (Guest Editor)

Contents

Contents

Nachruf

Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Peter Lösche

Articles

Chance, Risk, Security in American Literature. An Introduction

Approaches to Uncertainty in American Literature. An Introduction

Chance

Providence and Contingency in Edwards, Emerson, and Dickinson

“The Spectre of Uncertainty”

Chance in Bellamy’s Utopian Fictions

Necessary Chances

A Response to Grimstad and Dikant

Risk

Frederick Douglass’s ‚The Heroic Slave‘ – Risk, Fiction, and Insurance in Antebellum America

Risk and Nostalgia

Fictions of the Financial Crisis

The Presence of Risk in Finance and Fiction

A Response to Hoepker and Kloeckner

Security

At War with the Unknown

Hollywood, Homeland Security, and the Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism after 9/11

In the Future, Toward Death

Finance Capitalism and Security in DeLillo’s ‚Cosmopolis‘

The Dialectical Enlightenment of the Security Imaginary

A Response to Frank and Voelz

“America at Large?” Inter-American Studies, Transnationalism, and the Hemispheric Turn

Research Survey and Review of the Book Series Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos (vol. I-V)

Reviews

Reviews

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