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