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Ralph Ellison Travels to Denmark: Invisible Man/Usynlig Mand and the World Location of American Literature 拉尔夫-埃里森游历丹麦：隐形人/Usynlig Mand 和美国文学的世界位置

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i2.7043

Johs Rasmussen

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Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848-1870 内战定居者：斯堪的纳维亚人、公民身份和美利坚帝国，1848-1870 年

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i2.7047

Julie K. Allen

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The Dark Comedy of the Courtroom: Norman Jewison’s And Justice for All 法庭上的黑色喜剧诺曼-朱维森的《人人伸张正义

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i2.7042

Mikkel Jensen

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Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby 真的发生了吗？罗曼-波兰斯基《罗斯玛丽的婴儿》的后现代恐怖

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i2.7039

Thorsten Carstensen

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Finnish Settler Colonialism North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces 北美芬兰移民殖民主义：重新思考芬兰人在跨国空间中的经历

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i2.7048

Nancy Coggeshall

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In the Womb of Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction, Reproductive Technology, and the Future 在乌托邦的女人身上：女权主义科幻、生殖技术与未来

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6858

Jenny Bonnevier

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Leo Marx's Legacy 马克思的遗产

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6855

D. Nye

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The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era 野心的终结：越南时代的美国与第三世界

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6870

Anne Mørk

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Editor's Note 编者按

4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6869

Anders Bo Rasmussen

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What American Readers Remember: A Case Study 美国读者记得什么:一个案例研究

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6857

Lovro Škopljanac

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