Welcome to Issue 44.3 of the European Journal of American Culture ( EJAC ). In this issue, we bring you articles that confront the complex interplay between state violence, vulnerability, trauma and agency that has come to shape and define the contemporary United States. Focusing on John Gregory Brown’s A Thousand Miles from Nowhere , Alexandra Diaz’ Santiago’s Road Home and William March’s The Bad Seed , Artemis Michailidou, Lena Elipe-Gutiérrez and Maysaa Jaber engage in important and timely cultural dialogue, respectively inviting us to read these texts as acts of narrative resistance against the normalization and naturalization of oppressive social, political and economic structures that continue to underwrite environmental catastrophe, (im)migration crises and juvenile crime throughout the modern-day United States. In addition to the featured articles, we hope you enjoy Martin Hall’s review of the 2024 Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown , directed by James Mangold.
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