Mobile and Entangled America(s)
Published on 12. May 2016
354 pages
978-1-317-09528-6 (ISBN)
Description
A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. From religious networks to music and dance, and across a range of literary and artistic works, the mobility of people, objects, and ideas in the Americas is expertly mapped. At the same time, the book represents a serious enterprise of theory-building. Drawing on the histories of postcolonial thought, mobility studies, and work on human migration, Mobile and Entangled America(s) clearly establishes a new interdisciplinary field attentive both to the complexities of cultural form and the pervasiveness of power relations. Each article stands as a significant piece of scholarship on its own, but all are in dialogue with each other. The result is a richly satisfying and important volume of cultural scholarship.
Reviews / Votes
'This volume transcends celebrations of multiculturalism and condemnations of globalization through its insightful reflections on the positive and negative aspects of entanglements in the Americas. Essays on literature, music, media, travel, and biocultural and spiritual mobilities explore issues of identity and displacement, mobility and stasis, rupture and growth. A timely collection that pushes the boundaries of Inter-American Studies.' Catherine Leen, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 'A resolutely interdisciplinary Inter-American Studies collection by an international group of scholars in ongoing dialogue. So rigorously do the editors stir up the collection's key concepts, mobility and entanglement?, that the words stopped striking me as opposites about halfway through the introduction, and seemed to increase in dynamism as author after author pushed them together to spark new insights in a vast range of cultural studies across the Americas. Not a metaphor or map in sight, this is a disorientating collection in the best sense of the word.' Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white
File size
3,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-09528-6 (9781317095286)
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Persons
Maryemma Graham is Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Content
Lists of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Just a Small Step: From Jamaica Kincaid's
A Small Place to Mobile and Entangled America(s) 1
Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert
PART I LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOBILITIES
1 On Routes and Roots: Movement and Rootedness in
Garifuna Culture 13
Paula Prescod
2 CircumCaribbean Sisterhood: Patterns of Migration in
Cristina Garcia's The Agueero Sisters 25
John Lowe
3 Tracing Afro Diasporic Histories: Translocational Storytelling
and Entangled Afro Americas in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass,
Cypress & Indigo and Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm Dying 51
Wilfried Raussert
4 "My history is a creature nobody really believes in. My history is
a foreign word." Second-Generation Immigrant Identity in
David Chariandy's Soucouyant 73
Miriam Brandel
5 From Granny's Knee to Graduate Seminar: The Travels of
the Soucouyant 91
Giselle Liza Anatol
6 Translocating the Caribbean, Positioning Im/Mobilities:
The Sonic Politics of Las Krudas from Cuba 103
Julia Roth
vi Mobile and Entangled America(s)
PART II BIOCULTURAL AND NEW MEDIA MOBILITIES
7 Intimate Ties: Biotic Mobility and Inter-American Studies 131
Ruediger Kunow
8 Tattoo Travels: On Mobilities and Mobilizations of
American Skin Art 155
Martin Butler
9 United Colors of Belonging? Participatory Culture and
Diversity 2.0 in the Crowd-sourced Documentary Life in a Day 167
Sebastian Thies
10 Transnational Forces, Technological Developments, and
the Role of the State in the Mexican Audiovisual Sector 189
Jose Carlos Lozano
11 Mission Inverted: Inter-American Religious Flows and
How to Capture Them 203
Heinrich Wilhelm Schaefer
PART III TRAVELING POLITICS, TRAVELING IDEOLOGIES,
AND TRANSMIGRATIONS
12 The Polysemic Use of Identity and Culture in International
Migration: The Case of Central American Migration in Mexico 245
Rodolfo Casillas
13 The Mobility of Hope and Violence in Sin Nombre 265
Josef Raab
14 Mexican Indigenismo in a Hemispheric Context-Elements for
a Historiography of Inter-American Entanglements in the
First Half of the Twentieth Century 283
Olaf Kaltmeier
15 Boas Goes to Americas: The Emergence of Trans-American
Perspectives on "Culture" 301
Afef Benessaieh
16 Moby-Dick and Globalization 321
John Carlos Rowe
Index 337
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Just a Small Step: From Jamaica Kincaid's
A Small Place to Mobile and Entangled America(s) 1
Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert
PART I LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOBILITIES
1 On Routes and Roots: Movement and Rootedness in
Garifuna Culture 13
Paula Prescod
2 CircumCaribbean Sisterhood: Patterns of Migration in
Cristina Garcia's The Agueero Sisters 25
John Lowe
3 Tracing Afro Diasporic Histories: Translocational Storytelling
and Entangled Afro Americas in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass,
Cypress & Indigo and Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm Dying 51
Wilfried Raussert
4 "My history is a creature nobody really believes in. My history is
a foreign word." Second-Generation Immigrant Identity in
David Chariandy's Soucouyant 73
Miriam Brandel
5 From Granny's Knee to Graduate Seminar: The Travels of
the Soucouyant 91
Giselle Liza Anatol
6 Translocating the Caribbean, Positioning Im/Mobilities:
The Sonic Politics of Las Krudas from Cuba 103
Julia Roth
vi Mobile and Entangled America(s)
PART II BIOCULTURAL AND NEW MEDIA MOBILITIES
7 Intimate Ties: Biotic Mobility and Inter-American Studies 131
Ruediger Kunow
8 Tattoo Travels: On Mobilities and Mobilizations of
American Skin Art 155
Martin Butler
9 United Colors of Belonging? Participatory Culture and
Diversity 2.0 in the Crowd-sourced Documentary Life in a Day 167
Sebastian Thies
10 Transnational Forces, Technological Developments, and
the Role of the State in the Mexican Audiovisual Sector 189
Jose Carlos Lozano
11 Mission Inverted: Inter-American Religious Flows and
How to Capture Them 203
Heinrich Wilhelm Schaefer
PART III TRAVELING POLITICS, TRAVELING IDEOLOGIES,
AND TRANSMIGRATIONS
12 The Polysemic Use of Identity and Culture in International
Migration: The Case of Central American Migration in Mexico 245
Rodolfo Casillas
13 The Mobility of Hope and Violence in Sin Nombre 265
Josef Raab
14 Mexican Indigenismo in a Hemispheric Context-Elements for
a Historiography of Inter-American Entanglements in the
First Half of the Twentieth Century 283
Olaf Kaltmeier
15 Boas Goes to Americas: The Emergence of Trans-American
Perspectives on "Culture" 301
Afef Benessaieh
16 Moby-Dick and Globalization 321
John Carlos Rowe
Index 337
