Volume 38, no. 2
(Summer 1997)

Special Issue: American Studies: From Culture Concept to Cultural Studies?

Introduction
Norman R. Yetman

Some [New] Elementary Axioms for an American Cultur[al] Studies
Jay Mechling

Undisciplined Multiplicity: The Relevance of an American Cultural Studies
De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Some Elementary Questions for an American Cultural Studies
Response to Mechling and Kilgore
James J. Farrell

To Kvetch and Define a Field
Richard P. Horwitz

Towards a Post-Imperial, Transnational American Studies: Notes of a Frequent Flier
Doris Friedensohn

American Studies and Americans: A Crank's Critique
Response to Horwitz and Friedensohn
Steven Watts

The Continuing Embarrassment of Culture: From the Culture Concept to Cultural Studies
Barry Shank

Three Challenges for the Field of American Studies: Relating to Cultural Studies, Addressing Wider Publics, and Coming to Term with Religions
Mark Hulsether

Comments
Response to Shank and Hulsether
Albert E. Stone