The book is a commemorative publication for Josef Raab and this collection of essays presents recent lines of research and results in the field of InterAmerican Studies. The book also opens new perspectives for future research. The collection of essays is interdisciplinary and brings together historical, film, literary and cultural studies approaches to the Americas. Renowned scholars and young researchers make this book a cross-disciplinary work highly suitable for scholars and students.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
WILFRIED RAUSSERT
Neither Same nor Separate: Hemispheric Horizons of American Studies ................ 11
JOSEF RAAB
The Power of Perceptions: Theodore Roosevelt, Latin America,
and the European Powers, 1898-1909 ..................................................................... 33
STEFAN RINKE
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Gang-Related Violence:
Central American Minors and the Current U.S. Refugee Regime ............................ 51
MARIETTA MESSMER
From Color to Whiteness: Thinking the Transfiguration of the Political Body
in the Americas from Evo Morales and Barack Obama to Jair Bolsonaro
and Donald Trump ................................................................................................... 75
OLAF KALTMEIER
Cecilia Absatz's Los años pares or the Challenge of Reevaluating
Autochthonous Latinamericanism ........................................................................... 91
LUZ ANGÉLICA KIRSCHNER
Reclaiming Voices and Bodies of the Nobodies:
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ...................................... 107
ISABEL CALDEIRA
Saint or Scoundrel? Remembering and Representing Padre Martínez
in Early (Auto)Biography and Fiction ..................................................................... 121
ASTRID HAAS
Of Love Songs, Open Wounds, and (Almost) Everything In Between:
Borderlands and InterAmerican Literature ............................................................... 133
SASKIA HERTLEIN
Political Organization at the Grass-Roots Level in Oscar Zeta Acosta's
The Revolt of the Cockroach People ........................................................................ 145
FRANCISCO A. LOMELÍ
The Politics of Remembering in Carmen Aguirre's The Refugee Hotel .................. 155
GABRIELE PISARZ-RAMIREZ
Silence and Voice in Villanueva's Scene from the Movie GIANT ........................... 167
JULIANA FILLIES TESTA MUÑOZ
Piedra Rodante: The Memory of the Musical Consumption of a Generation
of Mexican Youth in the Seventies .......................................................................... 185
YOLANDA MINERVA CAMPOS GARCÍA
Sonic America(s): Politics of Recognition and Recent Trends
in Music Documentary ............................................................................................. 205
WILFRIED RAUSSERT
Noir Aesthetics, Institutional Racism, and Social Critique: Anthony Mann's
Devil's Doorway and the Denial of Legal Rights to First Americans ...................... 225
CHRIS LIPPARD
Border Crossings, Memory, and Performativity
in Juan Carlos Zaldívar's 90 Miles (2001) ............................................................... 241
ANNETTE L. RUKWIED
Latinos on U.S. Primetime Entertainment Television .........................................
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
WILFRIED RAUSSERT
Neither Same nor Separate: Hemispheric Horizons of American Studies ................ 11
JOSEF RAAB
The Power of Perceptions: Theodore Roosevelt, Latin America,
and the European Powers, 1898-1909 ..................................................................... 33
STEFAN RINKE
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Gang-Related Violence:
Central American Minors and the Current U.S. Refugee Regime ............................ 51
MARIETTA MESSMER
From Color to Whiteness: Thinking the Transfiguration of the Political Body
in the Americas from Evo Morales and Barack Obama to Jair Bolsonaro
and Donald Trump ................................................................................................... 75
OLAF KALTMEIER
Cecilia Absatz's Los años pares or the Challenge of Reevaluating
Autochthonous Latinamericanism ........................................................................... 91
LUZ ANGÉLICA KIRSCHNER
Reclaiming Voices and Bodies of the Nobodies:
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ...................................... 107
ISABEL CALDEIRA
Saint or Scoundrel? Remembering and Representing Padre Martínez
in Early (Auto)Biography and Fiction ..................................................................... 121
ASTRID HAAS
Of Love Songs, Open Wounds, and (Almost) Everything In Between:
Borderlands and InterAmerican Literature ............................................................... 133
SASKIA HERTLEIN
Political Organization at the Grass-Roots Level in Oscar Zeta Acosta's
The Revolt of the Cockroach People ........................................................................ 145
FRANCISCO A. LOMELÍ
The Politics of Remembering in Carmen Aguirre's The Refugee Hotel .................. 155
GABRIELE PISARZ-RAMIREZ
Silence and Voice in Villanueva's Scene from the Movie GIANT ........................... 167
JULIANA FILLIES TESTA MUÑOZ
Piedra Rodante: The Memory of the Musical Consumption of a Generation
of Mexican Youth in the Seventies .......................................................................... 185
YOLANDA MINERVA CAMPOS GARCÍA
Sonic America(s): Politics of Recognition and Recent Trends
in Music Documentary ............................................................................................. 205
WILFRIED RAUSSERT
Noir Aesthetics, Institutional Racism, and Social Critique: Anthony Mann's
Devil's Doorway and the Denial of Legal Rights to First Americans ...................... 225
CHRIS LIPPARD
Border Crossings, Memory, and Performativity
in Juan Carlos Zaldívar's 90 Miles (2001) ............................................................... 241
ANNETTE L. RUKWIED
Latinos on U.S. Primetime Entertainment Television .........................................