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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Isabel Alonso-Breto: Sunil Yapa's "Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist": Protest, Fiction and the Ethics of Care

Saara Kekki: Entangled Histories of Assimilation: Dillon S. Myer and the Relocation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans (1942- 1953)

Teemu Mäkinen: Opposing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in the U.S. Congress: ldeological analysis of Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee Hearings

Ciarán O'Rourke: "The world too much with us? Rot!": William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of literary Perception

Tine Sommer: "I Take Everything Back That I Said": Ambivalence and Motherhood in "Mildred Pierce"

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