The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies: (Routledge Literature Companions)

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.

Table of 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 Caribs 37. Experiencing Global Violence: Latin America and the United States Facing the Great War 38. Cultural Diplomacy and the Promotion of Latin American Literature in the U.S. University during the Cold War Notes on the Contributors

About the Author :
Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Review :
"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)