BOOK REVIEW: JAMES AUGEROT AND ILEANA MARIN ON IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE US: CROSSROADS, FREEWAYS, COLLISIONS, EDS. EDUARD VLAD, ADINA CIUGUREANU, NICOLETA STANCA, PETER LANG, 2019.
BOOK REVIEW: JAMES AUGEROT AND ILEANA MARIN ON IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE US: CROSSROADS, FREEWAYS, COLLISIONS, EDS. EDUARD VLAD, ADINA CIUGUREANU, NICOLETA STANCA, PETER LANG, 2019.

Summary/Abstract: More than a conference proceedings which gathers Romanian and American scholars’ papers presented at the 2018 RAAS – Fulbright biennial conference, the volume Ideology, Identity, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions is conceived as a forum on major challenges of American culture by the two well-versed editors—Eduard Vlad and Adina Ciugureanu. While many of the texts engage with literary works that document the challenges posed by a diverse society (12 novel, a play, a travelogue, 2 non-fiction testimonial accounts, and 2 films), there are two dealing with the fundamental concepts for American politics and history such as individualism, exceptionalism, and “white localism”, and other two focusing on how Romanian-American identity is forged and presented in the US.

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