Hemispheric American Studies / / ed. by Caroline F. Levander, Robert S. Levine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Rachel,; Alemán, Jesse,; Bauer, Ralph,; Brickhouse, Anna,; Chuh, Kandice,; Cohn, Deborah,; Fox, Claire F.,; Gillman, Susan,; Greeson, Jennifer Rae,; Gruesz, Kirsten Silva,; Guterl, Matthew Pratt,; Irwin, Robert Mckee,; Lazo, Rodrigo,; Levander, Caroline F.,; Levine, Robert S.,; Marr, Timothy,; Nwankwo, Ifeoma C. K.,; Stephens, Michelle A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Levander, Caroline F.,; Levine, Robert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.) :; 17

This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation
• 1. Hemispheric Jamestown
• 2. The Hemispheric Genealogies of “Race”
• 3. “La Famosa Filadelfia”
• 4. The Other Country
• 5. An American Mediterranean
• 6. Expropriating The Great South and Exporting “Local Color”
• 7. The Mercurial Space of “Central” America
• 8. “I’m the Everybody Who’s Nobody”
• 9. The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism
• 10. PEN and the Sword
• 11. The Hemispheric Routes of “El Nuevo Arte Nuestro”
• 12. Memín Pinguín, Rumba, and Racism
• 13. “Out of This World”
• 14. Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres
• 15. The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora
• Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX