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The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)

The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies By Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)

The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)


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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. It includes contributions from canonical figures in the field,

The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies Summary

The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)

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.


The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies Reviews

The time has certainly come for overviews and handbooks that define the fields and its disciplinary history and problems more comprehensively ... Rassert's Routledge Companion is therefore a most welcome publication. -- Helmbrecht Breinig (Erlangen)

About Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)

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

Table of Contents

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. ?Que 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 arana 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

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NLS9781032179261
9781032179261
1032179260
The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University, Germany)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-30
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