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Imagining our Americas : toward a transnational frame /

Challenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies, demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shukla, Sandhya Rajendra (Editor ), Tinsman, Heidi, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Radical perspectives.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla
  • Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
  • Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • Bastards of the unfinished revolution : Bolívar's Ismael and Rizal's Martí at the end of the nineteenth century / John D. Blanco
  • Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander
  • Pleasure and colonial resistance : translating the politics of pidgin in Milton Murayama's All I asking for is my body / Susan Y. Najita
  • Experimental dreams, ethical nightmares : leprosy, isolation, and human experimentation in nineteenth-century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse
  • 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
  • Uprooted bodies : indigenous subjects and colonial discourses in Atlantic American studies / Michelle Stephens
  • Blackness goes South : race and mestizaje in our America / Rachel Adams
  • Queer harvests : homosexuality, the U.S. new left, and the Venceremos brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus
  • Dislocations of cold war cultures : exile, transnationalism, and the politics of form / Rebecca M. Schreiber
  • The attributes of sovereignty : the cold war, colonialism, and community education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein
  • All cumbias, the cumbia : the Latin Americanization of a tropical genre / Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste
  • "Panama money" : reading the transition to U.S. imperialism / Victor Bascara.