Imagining Our Americas (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Transnational Frame
Redaktion: Sandhya Shukla, Shukla

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Produktbeschreibung

This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North and South. In the volume's substantial introduction, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, explain the need to move beyond the paradigm of U.S. American Studies and Latin American Studies as two distinct fields. They point out the Cold War origins of area studies, and they note how many of the Americas' most significant social formations have spanned borders if not continents: diverse and complex indigenous societies, European conquest and colonization, African slavery, Enlightenment-based independence movements, mass immigrations, and neoliberal economies.Scholars of literature, ethnic studies, and regional studies as well as of anthropology and history, the contributors focus on the Americas as a broadly conceived geographic, political, and cultural formation. Among the essays are explorations of the varied histories of African Americans' presence in Mexican and Chicano communities, the different racial and class meanings that the Colombian musical genre cumbia assumes as it is absorbed across national borders, and the contrasting visions of anticolonial struggle embodied in the writings of two literary giants and national heroes: Jose Marti of Cuba and Jose Rizal of the Philippines. One contributor shows how a pidgin-language mixture of Japanese, Hawaiian, and English allowed second-generation Japanese immigrants to critique Hawaii's plantation labor system as well as Japanese hierarchies of gender, generation, and race. Another examines the troubled history of U.S. gay and lesbian solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Building on and moving beyond previous scholarship, this collection illuminates the productive intellectual and political lines of inquiry opened by a focus on the Americas.Contributors. Rachel Adams, Victor Bascara, John D. Blanco, Alyosha Goldstein, Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, Ian Lekus, Caroline F. Levander, Susan Y. Najita, Rebecca Schreiber, Sandhya Shukla, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Michelle Stephens, Heidi Tinsman, Nick Turse, Rob Wilson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822389958
• Artikelnr.: 54939627

Autorenporträt

Sandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Heidi Tinsman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla 1
Up from Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
/ Harilaos Stecopoulos 34
Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar’s Ismael and Rizal’s Marti
at the End of the Nineteenth Century / John D. Blanco 63
Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander 88
Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in
Milton Murayama’s All I Asking for Is My Body / Susan Y. Najita 111
Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human
Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse 138
Tracking the “China Peril” along the U.S. Pacific Rim: Carpetbaggers, Yacht
People, 1.2 Billion Cyborg Consumers, and the Bamboo Gang, Coming Soon to a
Neighborhood Near You! / Rob Wilson 168
Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discourses in Atlantic
American Studies / Michelle Stephens 190
Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America / Rachel Adams 214
Queer Harvests: Homosexuality,the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos
Brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus 249
Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the
Politics of Form / Rebecca M. Schreiber 282
The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community
Education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein 313
All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical Genre /
Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste 338
“Panama Money”: Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism / Victor Bascara
365
Contributors 387
Index 391