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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Kangyl Ko, Interracial Homosocial Bonds and Interracial Heterosexual Romance in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater
Niko Heikkilä, Racial Myths and the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
Benita Heiskanen and Hannu Salmi, “Lord Save Us from Champions like This”: The Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Championship Bouts as Transnational Sporting Culture in 1960s Finland
Marija Krivokapic, Reclaiming Home in Indigenous Women Poetry of North America
Adam Hjorthén, Transatlantic Monuments: On Memories and Ethics of Settler Histories
Ari Räisänen, Flanking Maneuvers: The Counternarratives of the Military Unconscious in Phil Klay’s “After Action Report” and “War Stories”
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