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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. 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.
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. ¿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
