Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies

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

"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)

• Table of ContentsWilfried Raussert. Introduction Part I 1. Key Ideas, Methods, Developments2. Then and Now: The Current State of Inter-American Literary Studies3. Transnational Perspectives on the Americas: Canada, the United States, and the Case of Mary Ann Shadd4. 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 Later7. Expanding Latinidad: A Hemispheric Perspective8. Sites of Pan American Thinking: A Methodology of Place9. The Place of the Canada-U.S. Boundary in Border and Inter-American Studies10. From Inter-American Relations to Global Commons? 11. Moby-Dick and Inter-American StudiesPart II Theory Put into Practice: Comparative, Relational, and Processual Case Studies12. "Reaching for the Same Can of Beans": Transnational Indigenous Performance in the U.S. and Canada13. Anansi the Trickster: Contesting Eurocentric Knowledge Production in the Americas14. "A Rose by Any Other Name": Naming and Location in Caribbean Literature15. Locating Trinidadian Identity in the Soundscapes of Calypso and Kaiso-Jazz Fusion across Four Generations16. Retuning Hegemonic Pop Culture: El Vez’s Citation Practices17. Kissing the Spiderwoman and Loving the Awful Grandmother: Popular Culture in Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña and Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo18. Hispanism and the Border: On Infrapolitical Literature19. 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 Mercy21. Fernando de Szyszlo and the Conceptual Turn in Cultural Policy22. Art School as Inter-American Contact Zone: New York Teachers & their Latin American Students23. The Inter-American Documentary24. Transience and Permanence in Online Selves: A Personal ReflectionPart III Power, Politics, and Asymmetries25. "Americus meets America": Colonization as En-Gendering in the Americas26. Cain’s Land, or Troping Indigenous Agriculture27. The Biology of Geography: Disease and Disease Ecologies in the Americas28. Language and the Afterlives of Empire29. A Hawai’ian Dialogue with the Mainland—‘Talk Story’ Talks Back Pidgin30. 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 Archive33. ‘Good Living’: Between ‘Development’ and the De/Coloniality of Power34. Intellectual Discourse and the Failed Nation in Mexico and Peru35. The African Diaspora, the Caribbean, and Oklahoma: Freedom, Global Economies, and Identity36. Displaced Roots, Viable Routes, the Garinagu, and the Caribs37. Experiencing Global Violence: Latin America and the United States Facing the Great War38. Cultural Diplomacy and the Promotion of Latin American Literature in the U.S. University during the Cold WarNotes on the Contributors