Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa(21 Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures)

Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume’s 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the Field Transatlantic Methodologies 2. Francisco Fernández de Alba — Transatlantic Coloniality in Cuba: The Case of Virgilio Piñera and Wilfredo Lam 3. Joan Ramon Resina — Transatlantic Studies: The Discipline That Thinks Itself Beyond Its Threshold 4. Joseba Gabilondo — The Atlantic State of Violence: State of Exception, Colonial/Civil Wars, and Concentration Camps 5. Mario Santana — Iberian Studies: The Transatlantic Dimension 6. Abril Trigo — Transatlantic Studies and the Geopolitics of Hispanism 7. Lisa Surwillo — Transatlantic Currents: Oceanic Crossings in Novás Calvo’s El negrero 8. Zeb Tortorici — Iberian Atlantic Bodies, Commodities, and Texts 9. Benita Sampedro — Inscribing Islands: From Cuba to Fernando Poo and back Transatlantic Linguistic Debates 10. José Del Valle — Linguistic History and Language Academies in Transatlantic Perspective 11. Lena Burgos-Lafuente — Los amarres de la lengua: Spanish Exiles, Puerto Rican Intellectuals, and the Battle Over Spanish, 1942-2016 12. Julio Ortega — The Transatlantic Trajectory 13. Robert Newcomb — “Across the Waves”: The Luso-Brazilian Republic of Letters at the Fin de Siècle Transatlantic Displacement 14. Aurélie Vialette — Rewriting the Colonial Past: Spanish Women Intellectuals as Agents of Cross-Cultural Literacy in the Mexican Press 15. Christina Karageourgou-Bastea — Luis Cernuda’s “Historial de un libro,” A Travelogue 16. Pedro García-Caro — Triangulating the Atlantic: Blanco White, Arriaza, and the London Debate over “Spain” Transatlantic Memory 17. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel — Children’s Gaze in Contemporary Cinema: A Transatlantic Poetics of Exile and Historical Memory 18. Lisa DiGiovanni — Childhood Memories of Inner Exile in Spain and Chile 19. Ana Corbalán — Ethical questions about human trafficking during times of dictatorship: Kidnapped children in Spain and Argentina 20. James D. Fernández — Between Empires: Spanish Immigrants in the United States (1868-1945) 21. Jennifer Duprey — The Exile as Disinherited: Pere Calders in Mexico 22. Sebastiaan Faber — Rethinking Spanish Civil War Exile: The Curious Case of the Catalans 23. Gina Herrmann — Transatlantic Trotsky Transatlantic Postcolonial Affinities 24. Luis Fernández Cifuentes — Notions of Empire: Transatlantic Art at the Height of the Cold War (A Case Study) 25. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones — Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Post-National Cinema? 26. Brad Epps — Looping the Loop: The African Vector in Hispanic Trans-Atlantic Studies 27. Thomas Harrington — When the Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of 19th and Early 20th Century Uruguayan Society and Culture 28. Silvia Bermúdez — “Africa begins in…” Donato Ndongo’s and Francisco Zamora Loboch’s Transatlantic Cartographies 29. Michelle Murray — Coerced Migration and Sex Trafficking: Transoceanic Circuits of Enslavement 30. Marco Antonio Landavazo — The Good Monarchical Government: Popular Translations of Spanish Political Thought During Mexico’s Independence Transatlantic Influence 31. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado — Alfonso Reyes, Hispanist Praxis and the Critique of Transatlantic Reason 32. Lanie Millar — Nicolás Guillén and Lusophone Negritude 33. Estela Vieira — Transatlantic Modernisms: Portugal and Brazil 34. Vicente Cervera — Hispanisms in the Works of Pedro Henríquez Ureña 35. Robert Wells — It’s Complicated -Ortega y Gasset’s Relationship with Argentina 36. Enrique Cortez — Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo: The Colonial Matrix and the Latin American Literatures Epilogue 37. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — The Future—If There Is One—Is Transatlantic