Gunter H Lenz

Biographic Data

ID1174187
NAMEGunter H Lenz
GIVEN NAMESGunter H
FAMILY NAMELenz
SIGNATURELENZ G H
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies

    Open AccessGunter H LenzCHAPTERFutures of American Studies2020

    This essay discusses the recent efforts to redefine the discursive strategies and critical objectives of American Studies in the context of Lawrence Grossberg's very critical re-assessment of the triumphal success of British Studies in the U. S. during the 1990s. The New Americanists have reclaimed the historical and political dimensions of American (Culture) Studies, opened the perspective to postnational narratives, and placed their work in the…

  • Radical Cosmopolitanism

    Open AccessGunter H LenzARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2012Cited by: 1References: 9

    This essay originally appeared in Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age, edited by Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009), 65–96.Günter H. Lenz’s important essay focuses on W. E. B. Du Bois’s education and experiences in Germany. Tracing Du Bois’s time in Germany, from his university years there (1892–1894) to his visits in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to his last stay in 1958 when he receiv…

  • Toward a Politics of American Transcultural Studies – Discourses of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism

    Open AccessGunter H LenzARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2012References: 19

    Excerpt from Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies (2011), edited by Winfried Fluck, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, published by Dartmouth College Press in Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies. Used with permission. http://www.upne.com.This piece, which is drawn from Günter Lenz's contribution to a new anthology volume on transnational American Studies, attempts to make sense of the “transna…

  • Symposium

    Open AccessGunter H Lenz, Rob Kroes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2011Cited by: 3References: 13

    The following set of essays consists of revised versions of contributions read at, or prepared for, a roundtable discussion at the 2009 convention of the American Studies Association in Washington, DC. The short contributions by the individual authors reflect on the boundaries, the perspectives, and the transdisciplinary dynamics of the field imaginary of transnational American Studies and the specific political role of new notions of citizenship…

  • Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies

    Open AccessGunter H LenzCHAPTERFutures of American Studies2002

  • Transnational American Studies

    Gunter H LenzCHAPTERMulticulturalism in Transit1998

  • The Crisis of Modernity

    Fabio B Dasilva, Gunter H Lenz et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

  • Symbolic Space, Communal Rituals, and The Surreality of The Urban Ghetto

    Gunter H LenzARTICLECallaloo1988

    Since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, black literature of the city has been intensely debated and often judged by mistaken standards. Have black writers more or less failed to reflect the urban experience of the common black people and sadly lagged behind social scientists or political activists in their efforts to understand the social and cultural changes brought about by black Americans' large-scale exposure to an urbanized and industrial…