Mobile and Entangled America(s)

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-09794-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 541 g

Reihe: InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict

A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. From religious networks to music and dance, and across a range of literary and artistic works, the mobility of people, objects, and ideas in the Americas is expertly mapped. At the same time, the book represents a serious enterprise of theory-building. Drawing on the histories of postcolonial thought, mobility studies, and work on human migration, Mobile and Entangled America(s) clearly establishes a new interdisciplinary field attentive both to the complexities of cultural form and the pervasiveness of power relations. Each article stands as a significant piece of scholarship on its own, but all are in dialogue with each other. The result is a richly satisfying and important volume of cultural scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Maryemma

Raussert, Wilfried

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lists of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Just a Small Step: From Jamaica Kincaid’s

A Small Place to Mobile and Entangled America(s) 1

Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert

PART I LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOBILITIES

1 On Routes and Roots: Movement and Rootedness in

Garifuna Culture 13

Paula Prescod

2 CircumCaribbean Sisterhood: Patterns of Migration in

Cristina Garcia’s The Agüero Sisters 25

John Lowe

3 Tracing Afro Diasporic Histories: Translocational Storytelling

and Entangled Afro Americas in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass,

Cypress & Indigo and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother I’m Dying 51

Wilfried Raussert

4 “My history is a creature nobody really believes in. My history is

a foreign word.” Second-Generation Immigrant Identity in

David Chariandy’s Soucouyant 73

Miriam Brandel

5 From Granny’s Knee to Graduate Seminar: The Travels of

the Soucouyant 91

Giselle Liza Anatol

6 Translocating the Caribbean, Positioning Im/Mobilities:

The Sonic Politics of Las Krudas from Cuba 103

Julia Roth

vi Mobile and Entangled America(s)

PART II BIOCULTURAL AND NEW MEDIA MOBILITIES

7 Intimate Ties: Biotic Mobility and Inter-American Studies 131

Rüdiger Kunow

8 Tattoo Travels: On Mobilities and Mobilizations of

American Skin Art 155

Martin Butler

9 United Colors of Belonging? Participatory Culture and

Diversity 2.0 in the Crowd-sourced Documentary Life in a Day 167

Sebastian Thies

10 Transnational Forces, Technological Developments, and

the Role of the State in the Mexi

Über Autor(innen)

Maryemma Graham is Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.