Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 382 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 627 g
Charting Identity and Belonging in the Americas
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 382 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 627 g
Reihe: Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos
ISBN: 978-3-86821-590-8
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
The 18 essays collected in this volume explore the notion of cultural difference as it is expressed in spaces, communities, and discourses that extend from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean to Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. The essays examine literary texts, films, television, performance art, murals, and music as well as language contact, political agendas, and indigenous rights. These paradigmatic case studies deepen and diversify our understanding of the ways in which spaces, communities, and discourses are constructed in the Americas, while also discussing the effects of those con-structions.
At a time when “globalists” and “antiglobalists” seem doomed to ending their conflicts with each other in exhaustion, Spaces—Communities—Discourses leads out of the globalist impasse into a brilliant focus on (in Raab’s words) “neither same nor separate,” both America and Americas, individual talent and belonging. The contributors to this volume work forcefully in inter-hemi¬s¬pheric perspectives, arising from inter-American dwelling on border and borderlands, confluence and singularity. From the first words of the introduction to the last syllable of the book, each of these eighteen essays is so richly provocative that the volume ultimately presents itself as the seedbed of eighteen books. Full of suggestion, this collection has the power to influence a generation of scholars and readers to think—and then think again. The conversation begun here will, I trust, continue.
—Jay Martin
Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities,Claremont McKenna College
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CONTENTS SASKIA HERTLEIN AND JOSEF RAAB Introduction: Spaces, Communities, and Discourses in Inter-American Studies 1 I. SPACES JOSEF RAAB Megacity Mazes: Tangles and Violence in Cidade de Deus , Amores perros , and Crash 23 MINNI SAWHNEY Mexican-U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel 51 SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN Life in the Red Zone; Or, the Geographies of Neoliberalism 67 HORST TONN “Can anyone tell me what time it is?”—Time and the Future in Rubén Martínez’s The Other Side 87 ANTJE DIETERICH Conceptions of Indigeneity in the Border Space Mexico/USA— Or, Becoming Indigenous in Aztlán 101 ALEXIA SCHEMIEN “You people used to be conquistadors, for Christ’s sake”: An Inter-American Perspective on Breaking Bad 117 II. COMMUNITIES ALLAN SMITH Conceptualizing Identitarian Complexity in the Geolinguistic Regions of the Western Hemisphere: The Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-speaking Americas on Common Analytical Ground 139 GONZALO PORTOCARRERO The Dynamcis of Cultural (Dis)Encounter: The Rise of Sendero Luminoso as a Paradigmatic Case for a Dialogue Between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’ 179 MARGARITA LÓPEZ MAYA Communal Councils: Analyzing the Perceptions of Participants in Caracas 187 KATHRIN LUCKMANN DE LOPEZ The Role of Language for Indexing Ethnic Identity in Short Stories by Mary Helen Ponce 205 INSA NEUMANN Dropping the Hyphen: American Identity Construction in The Hyphenated Family 233 BIRTE W. HORN An Interview with Chicana Writer and Performer Monica Palacios 251 SASKIA HERTLEIN Inter-American Identities in Contemporary Coming-of-Age Fiction 263 III. DISCOURSES CARMEN MARTÍNEZ NOVO The Twenty-first-Century Left in Latin America and Indigenous Rights 281 FRANK ERIK POINTNER The Construction of a Latin American Diaspora in Gilbert Hernandez’s Graphic Novels 301 YOLANDA MELGAR PERNÍAS Photographing Border Consciousness: Norma Elia Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera 311 BREANNE ROBERTSON Mayans, Maize, and the Middle West: Remaking U.S. Identity in the Ames Mural Competition 329 BERNDT OSTENDORF The Rise and Fall of Multicultural Theory and Practice: The Ideological Contradictions of Belonging 349 CONTRIBUTORS 367
