Re Mapping The Americas

Author : W. Andy Knight,Julián Castro-Rea,Hamid Ghany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317066767

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Re-mapping the Americas by W. Andy Knight,Julián Castro-Rea,Hamid Ghany Pdf

Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious through the establishment of several regional agreements. The emergence of political and economic regional integration blocs is a very timely topic analyzed by scholars in many disciplines worldwide. This book looks at remapping the recent trends in region-making throughout the Americas in a way that hasn’t been at the center of academic analyses so far. While examining these regionalisation tendencies with a historical background in mind, the authors also answer fundamental questions such as: What influences does globalization have on region-making, both on normative regionalism plans as well as on actual economic, political, cultural, military and social regionalization processes driven by state and non-state actors? What ideas or interests lead states in the Americas to cooperate or compete with one another and how is this power distributed? How do these regional agreements affect trade relations and have there been trade barriers set up to protect national economies? What agreements exist or have existed and how did they change with regard to contents and for what reason? The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of summarizing the hemisphere’s recent trends, the book also brings clarification in a detailed but easy to understand way about timely issues regarding the institutionalisation, or lack thereof, of the plethora of regional and sub-regional bodies that have emerged in this hemisphere over the past couple of decades.

Author : Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611681901

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Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies by Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe Pdf

What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691180786

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The Global Remapping of American Literature by Paul Giles Pdf

This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.

Author : Gesine Müller,Jorge J. Locane,Benjamin Loy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110598292

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Re-mapping World Literature by Gesine Müller,Jorge J. Locane,Benjamin Loy Pdf

How can we talk about World Literature if we do not actually examine the world as a whole? Research on World Literature commonly focuses on the dynamics of a western center and a southern periphery, ignoring the fact that numerous literary relationships exist beyond these established constellations of thinking and reading within the Global South. Re-Mapping World Literature suggests a different approach that aims to investigate new navigational tools that extend beyond the known poles and meridians of current literary maps. Using the example of Latin American literatures, this study provides innovative insights into the literary modeling of shared historical experiences, epistemological crosscurrents, and book market processes within the Global South which thus far have received scant attention. The contributions to this volume, from renowned scholars in the fields of World and Latin American literatures, assess travelling aesthetics and genres, processes of translation and circulation of literary works, as well as the complex epistemological entanglements and shared worldviews between Latin America, Africa and Asia. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a must-read for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0759104808

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Remapping Asian American History by Sucheng Chan Pdf

Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively, the essays in this volume challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Tessa Hauswedell,Axel Körner,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350991

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Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery by Tessa Hauswedell,Axel Körner,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team of contributors demonstrates how, as products of human agency, centre and periphery are conditioned by mutual dependencies; rather than representing absolute categories of analysis, they are subjective constructions determined by a constantly changing discursive context. Through its analysis, the volume develops and implements a conceptual framework for remapping centres and peripheries, based on conceptual history and discourse history. As such, it will appeal to a wide variety of historians, including transnational, cultural and intellectual, and historians of early modern and modern periods.

Author : W. Andy Knight,Julián Castro-Rea,Hamid Ghany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317066750

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Re-mapping the Americas by W. Andy Knight,Julián Castro-Rea,Hamid Ghany Pdf

Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious through the establishment of several regional agreements. The emergence of political and economic regional integration blocs is a very timely topic analyzed by scholars in many disciplines worldwide. This book looks at remapping the recent trends in region-making throughout the Americas in a way that hasn’t been at the center of academic analyses so far. While examining these regionalisation tendencies with a historical background in mind, the authors also answer fundamental questions such as: What influences does globalization have on region-making, both on normative regionalism plans as well as on actual economic, political, cultural, military and social regionalization processes driven by state and non-state actors? What ideas or interests lead states in the Americas to cooperate or compete with one another and how is this power distributed? How do these regional agreements affect trade relations and have there been trade barriers set up to protect national economies? What agreements exist or have existed and how did they change with regard to contents and for what reason? The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of summarizing the hemisphere’s recent trends, the book also brings clarification in a detailed but easy to understand way about timely issues regarding the institutionalisation, or lack thereof, of the plethora of regional and sub-regional bodies that have emerged in this hemisphere over the past couple of decades.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135247195

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Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cristina Herrera,Larissa M. Mercado-López
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349949014

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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape by Cristina Herrera,Larissa M. Mercado-López Pdf

This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time, migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space. Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence of literary production across borders.

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348035

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Imagining the Americas in Print by Michiel van Groesen Pdf

In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

Author : Rachel Adams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226005539

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Continental Divides by Rachel Adams Pdf

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in some cases transformed, when Canada and Mexico enter the picture. How, for example, does the work of the iconic American writer Jack Kerouac read differently when his Franco-American origins and Mexican travels are taken into account? Or how would our conception of American modernism be altered if Mexico were positioned as a center of artistic and political activity? In this engaging analysis, Adams charts the lengthy and often unrecognized traditions of neighborly exchange, both hostile and amicable, that have left an imprint on North America’s varied cultures.

Author : Robert H. Brinkmeyer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820337013

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Remapping Southern Literature by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Pdf

The fiction of Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, Madison Smartt Bell, Richard Ford, Rick Bass, Barbara Kingsolver, Chris Offutt, Frederick Barthelme, Dorothy Allison, and Clyde Edgerton, among others, challenges long-standing definitions of Southern fiction and regional identity and reconfigures the myths of the West that have shaped American life." "In Remapping Southern Literature, Brinkmeyer proposes that today's Southern writers are not by this shift abandoning Southern culture but are instead expanding its reach by seeking to balance the ideals of the South and West."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joe Bryan,Denis Wood
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462521968

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Weaponizing Maps by Joe Bryan,Denis Wood Pdf

Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples’ efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary examples from Nicaragua, Canada, and Mexico, this book explores the tension between military applications of participatory mapping and its use for political mobilization and advocacy. The authors analyze the emergence of indigenous territories as spaces defined by a collective way of life--and as a particular kind of battleground.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:937532604

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The Mapping of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611681895

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Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies by Winfried Fluck,Donald E. Pease,John Carlos Rowe Pdf

What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?