Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 791 g
Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 791 g
Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions
ISBN: 978-1-032-17926-1
Verlag: Routledge
An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including contributions from canonical figures in the field as well as a younger generation of scholars, reflecting the foundation and emergence of the field and establishing links between older and newer methodologies, this Companion covers:
- Theoretical reflections
- Colonial and historical perspectives
- Cultural and political intersections
- Border discourses
- Sites and mobilities
- Literary and linguistic perspectives
- Area studies, global studies, and postnational studies
- Phenomena of transfer, interconnectedness, power asymmetry, and transversality within the Americas.
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Table of Contents
Wilfried Raussert. Introduction
Part I
1. Key Ideas, Methods, Developments
2. Then and Now: The Current State of Inter-American Literary Studies
3. Transnational Perspectives on the Americas: Canada, the United States, and the Case of Mary Ann Shadd
4. The Empire of Liberty: Extractive Imperialism in a Globalization Era
5. Decolonial Reflections on Hemispheric Partitions: From the "Western Hemisphere" to the "Eastern Hemisphere"
6. ¿Qué han Hecho los Nuevos Americanistas?: The New American Studies, Ten Years Later
7. Expanding Latinidad: A Hemispheric Perspective
8. Sites of Pan American Thinking: A Methodology of Place
9. The Place of the Canada-U.S. Boundary in Border and Inter-American Studies
10. From Inter-American Relations to Global Commons?
11. Moby-Dick and Inter-American Studies
Part II
Theory Put into Practice: Comparative, Relational, and Processual Case Studies
12. "Reaching for the Same Can of Beans": Transnational Indigenous Performance in the U.S. and Canada
13. Anansi the Trickster: Contesting Eurocentric Knowledge Production in the Americas
14. "A Rose by Any Other Name": Naming and Location in Caribbean Literature
15. Locating Trinidadian Identity in the Soundscapes of Calypso and Kaiso-Jazz Fusion across Four Generations
16. Retuning Hegemonic Pop Culture: El Vez’s Citation Practices
17. Kissing the Spiderwoman and Loving the Awful Grandmother: Popular Culture in Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña and Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
18. Hispanism and the Border: On Infrapolitical Literature
19. Toni Morrison and Edwidge Danticat: Writers-as-Citizens of the African Diaspora, or ‘The Margin as a Space of Radical Openness’
20. Hemispheric Intersections in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
21. Fernando de Szyszlo and the Conceptual Turn in Cultural Policy
22. Art School as Inter-American Contact Zone: New York Teachers & their Latin American Students
23. The Inter-American Documentary
24. Transience and Permanence in Online Selves: A Personal Reflection
Part III
Power, Politics, and Asymmetries
25. "Americus meets America": Colonization as En-Gendering in the Americas
26. Cain’s Land, or Troping Indigenous Agriculture
27. The Biology of Geography: Disease and Disease Ecologies in the Americas
28. Language and the Afterlives of Empire
29. A Hawai’ian Dialogue with the Mainland—‘Talk Story’ Talks Back Pidgin
30. The Other Side of the Iron: Parrhesia of Slaves in the Indias
31. Dilemmas of Inter-American Anti-Racism. Re-Visiting ‘On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason’
32. The Ethnographic Archive
33. ‘Good Living’: Between ‘Development’ and the De/Coloniality of Power
34. Intellectual Discourse and the Failed Nation in Mexico and Peru
35. The African Diaspora, the Caribbean, and Oklahoma: Freedom, Global Economies, and Identity
36. Displaced Roots, Viable Routes, the Garinagu, and the
