The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literatures, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

Autorentext

Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Co-founder of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Giselle Liza Anatol is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA.

Sebastian Thies is Chair for Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Sarah Corona Berkin is a Professor at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

José Carlos Lozano is Research Fellow at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, México and Professor of Communication at Texas A&M International University, USA.

Inhalt

General Introduction to the Routledge Handbook to Culture and Media of the Americas Part I Literature and Music 1. **Introduction - Literature and Music in the Americas 2. African-descendant Literatures 3. Borders 4. Children's Literature 5. Cosmopolitanism 6. Crónicas and New Journalism 7. Dance 8. Foundational Discourses 9. Graphic Novels 10. Indigenous Literatures 11. Life Writing 12. Magical Realism and The Fantastic 13. Migration Literature 14. Modernism and Postmodernisms 15. Plantation Literature 16. Popular Music Flows 17. Protest Music 18. Public Intellectuals 19. Silencing 20. Slave Narratives 21. Trauma Literature 22. Travel Writing 23. Utopias Part II Media and Visual Cultures** 24. Introduction: Inter-American Studies on Media and Communication 25. Cinema 26. Comics 27. Cultural Industries 28. Digital Culture 29. Freedom of Expression and Censorship 30. Indigenous Media Production 31. Intellectual Property 32. Journalism 33. Latino Media 34. Media Consumption 35. Media Flows 36. Media Participation 37. Muralism 38. Photography 39. Public Media 40. Radio 41. Social Media 42. Telecommunications 43. Television 44. Video Games 45. Visual Cultures