Hemispheric American studies/ edited by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008. - vii, 356 p. : 25 cm.

Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation / Hemispheric Jamestown / The Hemispheric Genealogies of "Race": Creolization and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Difference across the Eighteenth-Century Americas / "La Famosa Filadelfia": The Hemispheric American City and Constitutional Debates / The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest / An American Mediterranean: Haiti, Cuba, and the American South / Expropriating The Great South and Exporting "Local Color": Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction / The Mercurial Space of "Central" America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic / "I'm the Everybody Who's Nobody": Genealogies of the New World Slave in Paul Robeson's Performances of the 1930s / The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito / PEN and the Sword: U.S.-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress / The Hemispheric Routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro": The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War / Memin Pinguin, Rumba, and Racism: Afro-Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film / "Out of This World": Islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas / Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres: Navigating Karen Tei Yamashita's Literary World / The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora / Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies / Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine -- Anna Brickhouse -- Ralph Bauer -- Rodrigo Lazo -- Jesse Aleman -- Matthew Pratt Guterl -- Jennifer Rae Greeson -- Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Michelle A. Stephens -- Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo -- Deborah Cohn -- Claire F. Fox -- Robert McKee Irwin -- Timothy Marr -- Kandice Chuh -- Rachel Adams -- Susan Gillman. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Latin American literature--History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.


America--Civilization.
America--Race relations.

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