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Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas

Herausgeber: Depkat, Volker | Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta | Falk, Jasmin

Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Bd. 20

2019

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Abstract

This volume collects original contributions discussing aspects, dimensions, and major problems of cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Looking at the Americas as a site of multi-directional entanglement and interaction, the chapters highlight the non-English and non-European contexts of the United States from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. They focus on processes of cultural hybridity resulting from the encounter of European, Native American, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. Contributions to this volume come from the fields of history, political science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Besides investigating the intellectual construction of the Americas, the texts analyze the history of slavery and emancipation, trace African Diasporas in Colombia and Brazil, critically assess the problem of democracy in Latin America, and scrutinize phenomena of literary entanglements in the Western hemisphere.

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Cover Cover
Titel III
Imprint IV
Table of Contents V
Framing the Discourse 1
Volker Depkat, Heike Paul, and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson: Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas: An Introduction 1
Part 1: The Intellectural Construction of ‘the Americas’ 13
Susanne Lachenicht: How the Americas Came to Be Known as ‘the Americas’: A Historical Approach to the Western Hemisphere 13
Markus Heide: The Idea of the Western Hemisphere: Imperial Knowledge Production on the Americas in Travel Writing of the Early Nineteenth Century 31
Part 2: Slavery, Emancipation and African Heritage in ‘the Americas’ 51
Christian Pinnen: The Cultural Transfer of Racial and Legal Traditions: The Natchez District During the Age of Revolutions 51
Ursula Prutsch: Slave Emancipation in Brazil and Cuba and Its Inter-American Dimension 73
Part 3: Space and Identity – Politics in Latin America 95
Valerie V.V. Gruber: Relational Geographies of Afro-Brazilian Identities: What Can We Learn from the Candeal Neighborhood in Salvador Da Bahia (Brazil)? 95
Gilma Mosquera Torres and Ángela María Franco Calderón: The Value of Collectivism: Property Rights, Urban Patterns, and Traditional Housing on the Colombian Pacific Coast 121
Part 4: Pan-American Literary Imaginations 137
Jobst Welge: The Boundaries of Reason: The Legacy of E.A. Poe in Latin America 137
Stephen M. Park: NAFTA and the Literary Imagination 157
Florian Tatschner: Literary Performance as Border Thinking: A Comparison of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s „Dictée“ and Norma Elia Cantú’s Canícula 171
Part 5: Successes and Challenges of Democracy in the Americas 191
Rainer Schmidt: Alternatives to Liberal Democracy – Revisited: Lessons from Latin America 191
Alan Siaroff: The Political Regimes of the Americas, 2000-2018, and Their Historical Origins 209
Notes on Contributors 231
Backcover 233