It is now over twenty years since Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease published their substantial edited collection Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke Univ. Press, 1993). In her introductory essay to the volume, “‘Left Alone with America’: The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture,” Kaplan considered how the notion of imperialism was long viewed as antithetical to an understanding of US culture. The collection’s aim, therefore, was to remove the aura of historical exceptionalism from our conception of the United States. Instead, as she put it, the essays there compiled would reveal “the multiple histories of continental and overseas expansion, conquest, conflict, and resistance which have shaped the cultures of the United States and the cultures of those it has dominated within and beyond its geopolitical boundaries” (4). Cultures indeed offered a generation of scholars versed in cultural studies masterful examples of how to read the myriad...
The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
The Geopoetics of Modernism
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
María del Pilar Blanco is associate professor of Spanish American literature and fellow in Spanish at Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination (Fordham Univ. Press, 2012) and coeditor, with Eric Bulson and Andrew Thacker, of the first volume of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines: South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her current monograph project explores the intersections of aesthetics and science in the print cultures of late nineteenth-century Spanish America.
María del Pilar Blanco; The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
The Geopoetics of Modernism
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars. American Literature 1 June 2016; 88 (2): 411–414. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533422
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