JAAAS Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 2025) Published

 

Dear friends of JAAAS,

we are excited to announce the publication of the latest issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies!

The 12th issue (vol 6, no. 2, spring 2025) is guest edited by Matthias Klestil and Marijana Mikić and entitled “Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures.” It includes the following contributions:

Special Issue Articles

“Re-envisioning America’s Frontier: A Speculative Journey through John Wesley Powell’s Expedition to the American West and Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men on Boats”
Ingrid Gessner and Angelika Ilg

“‘Last Frontier. North to the Future.’ – Oil-Age Alaska and the Environmental Critique in Mei Mei Evans’s Oil and Water”
Marija Krstic

“Cabin Fever, or: Back to the Future? The (Anti-)Pastoral in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Walden (1854)"
Robert A. Winkler

“Transplantation and Alternative Worlds: Speculation in Doctors’ Life Writing”
Ruth Germann

“Narratives of Resilience in Times of Climate Crisis: Angry Optimism and Utopian Minimalism in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Jenny Offill’s Weather”
Sylvia Mayer

 

Short Essay

“Splintered Archives -- Versions and Versioning through Erasure Arts and Poetry”
Mahshid Mayar

 

Book Reviews

Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature by Katherine D. Johnson
Joshua Parker

Becoming bell hooks: A Story about the Self-Empowerment of a Black Girl Who Became a Feminist by Aneta Ostaszewska
Lena E. Leßlhumer

Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez Badillo
Martin Gabriel

  

We hope you enjoy the read!

 

Warmest wishes,
Cornelia Klecker
Editor-in-Chief