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Zusatztext "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) Informationen zum Autor Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Klappentext 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! as well as a younger generation of scholars! to reflect the foundation and emergence of the field and to establish a link between older and newer methodologies. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
