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COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) is devoted to research by young Americanists. The e-journal was conceived as an opportunity for publication in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies and as an easy-to-access platform for scholarly exchange by young Americanists. The publication project originated in the 1999 Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) in Regensburg. It is located at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. The editors are Susanne Leikam, Sascha Pöhlmann, Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk, and Klara Stephanie Szlezák. COPAS connects its readers and contributors to ongoing and recently completed research projects in American Studies. It publishes papers from the various areas of American Studies, such as literature, history, popular culture and media cultures, visual culture, political science, sociology, and geography. |
2004, Number 5
“This Book Changed My Life!” ‘Oprah’s Book Club’ and The Poisonwood Bible
Literary production, distribution, and consumption seem to become more intricately entwined as readers engage in new forms of literary criticism on the Internet. This article analyzes the entries on Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible on 'Oprah's Book Club' online discussion board and shows how these both challenge and confirm academic literary criticism of the novel.
“The Pleasure Is All Mine”: Music and Female Sexual Autonom
To analyze sexual autonomy this paper concentrates on the recent concept of relational autonomy, which is different from the classic tradition in its multilevel perspective on persons as embodied, desiring, creative as well as rational creatures. I then apply this concept to music asking in which way women performers are both relational and (sexually) autonomous.
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