aspeers 4 (2011)

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the fourth issue. It contains academic contributions by: Martin Domke ("Into the Vertical: Basketball, Urbanization, and African American Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century America"); Anke Geertsma ("Redefining Trauma Post 9/11: Freud’s Talking Cure and Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"); Julian Henneberg ("'Something Extraordinary Hovering Just Outside Our Touch': The Technological Sublime in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"); Stephen Koetzing ("The Trespassing Cyborg: Technology, Nature, and the Nation in Wild Wild West"); Jutta Schulze ("A 'Truth Like This': Language and the Construction of Power and Knowledge in Vampire Fiction"). And Art Contributions by: Simon Cazzanelli, Pamela Dewey, Monika Linzmaier, and Ina Müller.