Hemispheric American Studies
by Levander, Caroline Field; Levine, Robert S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-02-28
Publisher(s): Rutgers Univ Pr
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Summary
This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation | p. 1 |
| Hemispheric Jamestown | p. 18 |
| The Hemispheric Genealogies of "Race": Creolization and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Difference across the Eighteenth-Century Americas | p. 36 |
| "La Famosa Filadelfia": The Hemispheric American City and Constitutional Debates | p. 57 |
| The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest | p. 75 |
| An American Mediterranean: Haiti, Cuba, and the American South | p. 96 |
| Expropriating The Great South and Exporting "Local Color": Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction | p. 116 |
| The Mercurial Space of "Central" America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic | p. 140 |
| "I'm the Everybody Who's Nobody": Genealogies of the New World Slave in Paul Robeson's Performances of the 1930s | p. 166 |
| The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito | p. 187 |
| PEN and the Sword: U.S.-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress | p. 206 |
| The Hemispheric Routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro": The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War | p. 223 |
| Memin Pinguin, Rumba, and Racism: Afro-Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film | p. 249 |
| "Out of This World": islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas | p. 266 |
| Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres: Navigating Karen Tei Yamashita's Literary World | p. 294 |
| The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora | p. 313 |
| Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies | p. 328 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 341 |
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