The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies

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,

"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)

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

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  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,

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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