Re-thinking and Re-making Kinship—a Critical Reevaluation of the Narratives of (American) Modernity: An Interview with Nancy Bentley
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Nancy Bentley is a distinguished scholar of American literary and cultural studies.She received her PhD from Harvard University where she specialized in nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature and culture.Her work, including the monographs Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870-1920 and The Ethnography of Manners, has combined disciplinary perspectives in original ways, in particular law and literature, anthropology and literature.Her other research interests include theory of the novel, social theory, and cinema and media.The recipient of a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Bentley has also taught and written about the history of American and African American literature, and she is currently writing a book on New World kinship and the American novel, a study of the way the novel has mediated the multiple forms of kinship coexisting in the Americas.We are proud to count her among the members of the scientific committee of Transatlantica and very honored that she has agreed to this interview.Re-thinking and Re-making Kinship-a Critical Reevaluation of the Narratives o...
Source: Transatlantica
Authors: Cécile Roudeau, Nancy Bentley
Institutions: Université Paris Cité, University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3202300253