%0 Journal Article
%T ˇ°Newˇ± ˇ°American Studiesˇ±: Exceptionalism redux?
%A Marc Chenetier
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2008
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.7453
%X The notion of ˇ°American Studiesˇ± no more goes of itself than any decreed necessity for their ˇ°renovation.ˇ± The distortions the locution endured over time threaten to head us for the situation derided by Kant in which one man tries to milk a he-goat while another holds up a sieve to gather the expected product. Some semantic clean-up is in order, in the light of dominant European views. I aim less at giving a sense of American studies (capital A, lower case s) in Europe than at suggesting why ...
%U http://ejas.revues.org/7453