American Studies in Scandinavia is a biannual publication published by the Nordic Association for American Studies. The aim of the association is to encourage and promote serious study of the United States and its civilisation in the five Nordic countries. The journal is interdisciplinary drawing upon such fields as geography, history, linguistics, literature, political science, social anthropology and sociology.
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Chanhaeng Lee: Chocolate Suburb, Vanilla Power: Race, Space and Civil Unrest in Ferguson
Hasine Sen Karadeniz: Demystifying the Sublime City in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things
Byron Z. Rom-Jensen: Yellow-Blue Collars: American Labor and the Pursuit of Swedish Policy, 1961-1963
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard: The Resilience of Camelot: The Kennedy Myth in Danish Newspapers during the Cold War
Moussa Pourya Asl, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah, and Md. Salleh Yaapar: Sexual Politics of the Gaze and Objectification of the (Immigrant) Woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
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