Hemispheric American Studies

by Levander, Caroline Field; Levine, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780813542232
• ISBN10: 0813542235
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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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