Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies

<p>An essential overview of this blossoming field, <i>The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies </i>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:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Theoretical reflections </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Colonial and historical perspectives</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Cultural and political intersections</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Border discourses</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Sites and mobilities</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Literary and linguistic perspectives</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Area studies, global studies, and postnational studies</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Phenomena of transfer, interconnectedness, power asymmetry, and transversality within the Americas.</li> <br><br> </ul> <p></p><p>Table of Contents</p><p></p><p>Wilfried Raussert. Introduction </p><p></p><p>Part I <br>1. Key Ideas, Methods, Developments</p><p></p><p>2. Then and Now: The Current State of Inter-American Literary Studies</p><p>3. Transnational Perspectives on the Americas: Canada, the United States, and the Case of Mary Ann Shadd</p><p>4. The Empire of Liberty: Extractive Imperialism in a Globalization Era </p><p>5. Decolonial Reflections on Hemispheric Partitions: From the "Western Hemisphere" to the "Eastern Hemisphere"</p><p>6. <i>¿Qué han Hecho los Nuevos Americanistas?</i>: The New American Studies, Ten Years Later</p><p>7. Expanding <i>Latinidad</i>: A Hemispheric Perspective</p><p>8. Sites of Pan American Thinking: A Methodology of Place</p><p>9. The Place of the Canada-U.S. Boundary in Border and Inter-American Studies</p><p>10. From Inter-American Relations to Global Commons?<b> </b></p><p></p><p>11. <i>Moby-Dick</i> and Inter-American Studies</p><p></p><p>Part II <br>Theory Put into Practice: Comparative, Relational, and Processual Case Studies</p><p></p><p><strong>12. </strong>"Reaching for the Same Can of Beans": Transnational Indigenous Performance in the U.S. and Canada</p><p>13. Anansi the Trickster: Contesting Eurocentric Knowledge Production in the Americas</p><p>14. "A Rose by Any Other Name": Naming and Location in Caribbean Literature</p><p>15. Locating Trinidadian Identity in the Soundscapes of Calypso and Kaiso-Jazz Fusion across Four Generations</p><p>16. Retuning Hegemonic Pop Culture: El Vez’s Citation Practices</p><p>17. Kissing the Spiderwoman and Loving the Awful Grandmother: Popular Culture in Manuel Puig’s <i>El beso de la mujer araña</i> and Sandra Cisneros’s <i>Caramelo</i></p><p>18. Hispanism and the Border: On Infrapolitical Literature</p><p>19. Toni Morrison and Edwidge Danticat: Writers-as-Citizens of the African Diaspora, or ‘The Margin as a Space of Radical Openness’</p><p>20. Hemispheric Intersections in Toni Morrison’s <i>A Mercy</i></p><p>21. Fernando de Szyszlo and the Conceptual Turn in Cultural Policy</p><p>22. <i>Art School as Inter-American Contact Zone</i>: New York Teachers & their Latin American Students</p><p>23. The Inter-American Documentary</p><p>24. Transience and Permanence in Online Selves: A Personal Reflection</p><p></p><p>Part III <br>Power, Politics, and Asymmetries</p><p></p><p>25. "Americus meets America": Colonization as En-Gendering in the Americas</p><p>26. Cain’s Land, or Troping Indigenous Agriculture</p><p>27. The Biology of Geography: Disease and Disease Ecologies in the Americas</p><p>28. Language and the Afterlives of Empire</p><p>29. A Hawai’ian Dialogue with the Mainland—‘Talk Story’ Talks Back Pidgin</p><p>30. The Other Side of the Iron: Parrhesia of Slaves in the Indias </p><p>31. Dilemmas of Inter-American Anti-Racism. Re-Visiting ‘On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason’</p><p>32. The Ethnographic Archive</p><p></p><p><strong>33. </strong>‘Good Living’: Between ‘Development’ and the De/Coloniality of Power</p><p>34. Intellectual Discourse and the Failed Nation in Mexico and Peru</p><p>35. The African Diaspora, the Caribbean, and Oklahoma: Freedom, Global Economies, and Identity</p><p>36. Displaced Roots, Viable Routes, the Garinagu, and the</p>