How Far is America From Here?

Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association 22-24 May 2003
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-420-1756-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 636 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1216 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance, discursive formations, ideals and ideologies, foundational narratives, political conformities, aberrations, inconsistencies? Where is here—positionality, geographies, spatial compressions, hegemonic and subaltern loci, disciplinary formations, reflexes and reflexivities? These questions are addressed with regard to the multiple Americas within the USA and the bi-continental western hemisphere, as part of and beyond inter-American cultural relations, ethnicities across the national and cultural plurality of America, mutual constructions of North and South, borderlands, issues of migration and diaspora. The larger contexts of globalization and America’s role within this process are also discussed, alongside issues of geographical exploration, capital expansion, integration, transculturalism, transnationalism and global flows, pre-Columbian and contemporary Native American cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, the environmental crisis, U.S. literature in relation to Canadian or Latin American literature, religious conflict both within the Americas and between the Americas and the rest of the world, with such issues as American Zionism, American exceptionalism, and the discourse of/on terror and terrorism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

D'haen, Theo

Giles, Paul

Kadir, Djelal

Parkinson Zamora, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AMERICAN STUDIES FROM AN INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES PERSPECTIVE
Djelal KADIR: Defending America against Its Devotees
Amy KAPLAN: The Tenacious Grasp of American Exceptionalism
Kousar J. AZAM: Resisting Terror, Resisting Empire
Werner SOLLORS: How far from America is America?

INTERNATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, HEMISPHERIC AMERICA
Janice L. REIFF: Through the Fun House Mirror
J.P. BRITS: American Diplomats in South Africa and the Emergence of Apartheid, 1948-1953
Allison BLAKELY: The Quest for Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora in the Americas and Europe in the Early Twentieth Century
Roland WALTER: Notes on Border(land)s and Transculturation in the ‘Damp and Hungry Interstices’ of the Americas
Justin READ: Antropofagismo and the ‘Cannibal Logic’ of Hemispheric American Studies

AMERICAN SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND RELIGIOUS MENTALITIES
Kathleen HANEY: Is Truth Defunct?
Bernd KLÄHN: True Ethics
Mary KUPIEC CAYTON: ‘In All People I See Myself’

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES, LITERARY COUNTERPOINTS
Jerry A. VARSAVA: The End of History?
Amaryll CHANADY: Excentric Positionalities
Amporn SRISERMBHOK: Approaches to Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Helena CARVALHÃO BUESCU: How Far is Modernity From Here?
Tatsushi NARITA: How Far is T.S. Eliot From Here?
Cecilia ENJUTO RANGEL: Cities in Ruins
Gönül PULTAR: An ‘American Venture’
Pedro GARCÍA-CARO: Damnosa Hereditas
Rodney STEPHENS: American Culture Meets Post-Colonial Insight

AMERICAN IDENTITIES
Silvia NAVIA MÉNDEZ-BONITO: Juan de Velasco’s (S.J.) Natural History
Jerry M. WILLIAMS: Creole Identity in Eighteenth-Century Peru
Albena BAKRATCHEVA: Locating the American Voice
Carmen BIRKLE: Home away from Home
Irene ARTIGAS ALBARELLI: The In-between Space
Corina ANGHEL: Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West
Helen M. DENNIS: Homing In?
Joshua L. MILLER: Multilingual Narrative and the Refusal of Translation
Kirsten TWELBECK: Ty Pak: Korean American Literature as ‘Guilt Payment’
Gavin James CAMPBELL: ‘Buried Alive in the Blues’
Helen McCLURE: How Far is the Canadian Border from America?

SPACE AND PLACE IN AMERICAN STUDIES
Sheila HONES, Julia LEYDA & Khadija FRITSCH-El ALAOUI: Space and Place in Geography and American Studies
Anders OLSSON: Innocents Abroad?
Cinzia SCHIAVINI: ‘Is it down on any map?’
Rosario FARAUDO: Willa Cather’s Deep Southwest
Dorothea LÖBBERMANN: The Transitional in the American Cities
Camilla FOJAS: Schizopolis: Border Cinema and the Global City (of Angels)
Marina PETERSON: All the World’s in L.A.
Markku SALMELA: New York City as America
Dorothea LÖBBERMANN: Transient Figures in New York

Notes on Contributors