TY - BOOK AU - Levander, Caroline Field AU - Levine, Robert S TI - Hemispheric American studies SN - 9780813542225 (hardcover : alk. paper) U1 - 970 PY - 2008/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Latin American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Ethnic groups in literature KW - America KW - Civilization KW - Race relations N1 - Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation; Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine --; 1; Hemispheric Jamestown; Anna Brickhouse --; 2; The Hemispheric Genealogies of "Race": Creolization and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Difference across the Eighteenth-Century Americas; Ralph Bauer --; 3; "La Famosa Filadelfia": The Hemispheric American City and Constitutional Debates; Rodrigo Lazo --; 4; The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest; Jesse Aleman --; 5; An American Mediterranean: Haiti, Cuba, and the American South; Matthew Pratt Guterl --; 6; Expropriating The Great South and Exporting "Local Color": Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction; Jennifer Rae Greeson --; 7; The Mercurial Space of "Central" America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic; Kirsten Silva Gruesz --; 8; "I'm the Everybody Who's Nobody": Genealogies of the New World Slave in Paul Robeson's Performances of the 1930s; Michelle A. Stephens --; 9; The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito; Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo --; 10; PEN and the Sword: U.S.-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress; Deborah Cohn --; 11; The Hemispheric Routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro": The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War; Claire F. Fox --; 12; Memin Pinguin, Rumba, and Racism: Afro-Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film; Robert McKee Irwin --; 13; "Out of This World": Islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas; Timothy Marr --; 14; Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres: Navigating Karen Tei Yamashita's Literary World; Kandice Chuh --; 15; The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora; Rachel Adams --; Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies; Susan Gillman ER -