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Zusatztext 'This volume transcends celebrations of multiculturalism and condemnations of globalization through its insightful reflections on the positive and negative aspects of entanglements in the Americas. Essays on literature! music! media! travel! and biocultural and spiritual mobilities explore issues of identity and displacement! mobility and stasis! rupture and growth. A timely collection that pushes the boundaries of Inter-American Studies.' Catherine Leen! National University of Ireland! Maynooth 'A resolutely interdisciplinary Inter-American Studies collection by an international group of scholars in ongoing dialogue. So rigorously do the editors stir up the collection's key concepts! mobility and entanglement! that the words stopped striking me as opposites about halfway through the introduction! and seemed to increase in dynamism as author after author pushed them together to spark new insights in a vast range of cultural studies across the Americas. Not a metaphor or map in sight! this is a disorientating collection in the best sense of the word.' Sherrie Tucker! University of Kansas! USA Informationen zum Autor Maryemma Graham is Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Zusammenfassung With a combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies. It gathers articles that examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lists of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Just a Small Step: From Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place to Mobile and Entangled America(s) 1 Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert PART I LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOBILITIES 1 On Routes and Roots: Movement and Rootedness in Garifuna Culture 13 Paula Prescod 2 CircumCaribbean Sisterhood: Patterns of Migration in Cristina Garcia’s The Agüero Sisters 25 John Lowe 3 Tracing Afro Diasporic Histories: Translocational Storytelling and Entangled Afro Americas in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother I’m Dying 51 Wilfried Raussert 4 “My history is a creature nobody really believes in. My history is a foreign word.” Second-Generation Immigrant Identity in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant 73 Miriam Brandel 5 From Granny’s Knee to Graduate Seminar: The Travels of the Soucouyant 91 Giselle Liza Anatol 6 Translocating the Caribbean, Positioning Im/Mobilities: The Sonic Politics of Las Krudas from Cuba 103 Julia Roth vi Mobile and Entangled America(s) PART II BIOCULTURAL AND NEW MEDIA MOBILITIES 7 Intimate Ties: Biotic Mobility and Inter-American Studies 131 Rüdiger Kunow 8 Tattoo Travels: On Mobilities and Mobilizations of American Skin Art 155 Martin Butler 9 United Colors of Belonging? Participatory Culture and Diversity 2.0 in the Crowd-sourced Documentary Life in a Day 167 Sebastian Thies 10 Transnational Forces, Technological Developments, and the Role of the State in the Mexican Audiovisual Sector 189 José Carlos Lozano 11 Mission Inverted: Inter-American Religious Flows and How to Capture Them 203 Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer PART III TRAVELING POLITICS, TRAVELING IDEOLOGIES, AND TRANSMIGRATIONS 12 The Polysemic Use of Identity and Culture in International Migration: The Case of Cent...
