The Fiction of America: Performance and Cultural Imaginary in Literature & Film - North American Studies for Academic Research & Cultural Analysis" （注：原标题已为英文且学术性较强，主要优化点： 1. 简化连接词"and"为"&" 2. 增加学术用途关键词"Academic Research" 3. 补充应用场景"Cultural Analysis" 4. 保持核心学术术语不变）

The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culture—pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spiderman, and Hester Prynne with Madonna—to investigate how the “Americanness” of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. Conceptualizing “America” as a transhistorical practice, Susanne Hamscha reveals disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of “America,” which confront American culture with its inherent inconsistencies.