Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic, and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies

2010 ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Deborah Cohn ◽  
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
American Century ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies ◽  
Institutional Challenges

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-327
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Pierce ◽  
María Amelia Viteri ◽  
Diego Falconí Trávez ◽  
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz ◽  
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Working Group ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies

Abstract This special issue questions translation and its politics of (in)visibilizing certain bodies and geographies, and sheds light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted the imperial gaze, or that remain untranslatable. Part of a larger scholarly and activist project of the Feminist and Cuir/Queer Américas Working Group, the special issue situates the relationships across linguistic and cultural differences as central to a hemispheric queer/cuir dialogue. We have assembled contributions with activists, scholars, and artists working through queer and cuir studies, gender and sexuality studies, intersectional feminisms, decolonial approaches, migration studies, and hemispheric American studies. Published across three journals, GLQ in the United States, Periódicus in Brazil, and El lugar sin límites in Argentina, this special issue homes in on the production, circulation, and transformation of knowledge, and on how knowledge production relates to cultural, disciplinary, or market-based logics.

Hemispheric American Studies (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
John Havard
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies

scholarly journals The Hemispheric Approach of Julia Alvarez’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Mónica Fernández Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Julia Alvarez ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies ◽  
Latino Literature ◽  
The Caribbean

This article analyses three novels by Julia Alvarez–How the García Girls Lost their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and In the Name of Salomé (2000)– through the lenses of Hemispheric American Studies. Inspired by the teachings of Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s theoretical work The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (1992), I contend that the categorisation of these novels as Latino literature is not enough to describe all of their richness. These novels portray throughout their pages social, political, and artistic relations that tie all of the Americas together, and their analysis benefits from the essays written by Caribbean post-essentialist critics who developed, during the 1990s, a discourse based on the cultural supersyncretism of the islands that helps us to understand the postmodern globalised worlds as it stands. The novels by Alvarez reflect these theories, as they portray the realities of a New World constricted by the workings of race and racism, capitalism, and postcolonialism.

Hemispheric American Studies (review)

MELUS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-225
Author(s):  
Paul Lai
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies

Epilogue: Americanists after America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Blaustein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Studies ◽  
International Order ◽  
American Empire ◽  
American Century ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
The Subject

If the American Century is over, must the Americanist Century be over, too? Nightmare Envy and Other Stories, in its circuitous way, has been about culture and the formation of the post-1945 international order. The epilogue reflects on the resonances of this cultural history for the present, as that international order breaks. The contemplation of the decline and fall of an American empire has long lurked as an Americanist preoccupation or perverse fantasy, and there are discernible continuities between the American Studies scholarship of the mid-twentieth century and that of our own time. The epilogue also ponders obituaries of the American Century, from before and after the US presidential election of November 2016. The paradigmatic narratives of “America” and “Europe” that are the subject of this book were minted in the mid-twentieth century. They appeared to be inverted in the twenty-first.

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