Interdisciplinarity represents a central feature of the American Cultural Studies field, being an intellectual project which may be placed within the vast perspective of cultural relativism. The present paper attempts to explore the mechanisms through which a plurality of voices and narratives shape this area of academic research. The crossing of frontiers, represented by interdisciplinarity in the cultural domain, was brought about by postmodernism, while in the scientific world it was triggered off by the emergence of the theory of chaos. If the field of American Studies were to rely exclusively on itself, without exchanging any methodological and conceptual energy with other disciplines, it would run the risk of collapsing within itself, which would be an illustration of the process the French theorist Jean Baudrillard calls “implosion,” by which he designates an enormous outburst of inwardly directed energy which dissolves through replenishment.
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