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...Gretchen Murphy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Gretchen Nation, Ocean, Hemisphere, and Planet: Murphy New Geographies of American Literary Studies Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers...

...María del Pilar Blanco The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature . By Park Stephen M. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xii, 269 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book, $27.50 . The Geopoetics...

...Claire F. Fox © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos . By Louis A. Pérez Jr. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. xii, 333 pp. $34.95. Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric...

...Rodrigo Lazo © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Rodrigo The Place of Hemispheric American Studies Lazo Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente. By Peter Hulme. Liver- pool, UK: Liverpool Univ. Press. 2011. 455 pp. $120.00. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America...

...Richard T. Rodríguez Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries . By Guidotti-Hernández Nicole M. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xviii , 374 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American...

...Katie Bray “‘A Climate . . . More Prolific . . . in Sorcery’: The Black Vampyre and the Hemispheric Gothic” proposes that Uriah Derick D’Arcy’s pseudonymous The Black Vampyre ( 1819 ) exemplifies the hemispheric gothic through its exposure of the connected, but disavowed histories of the Haitian...

...Jordan Wingate Abstract My essay traces the influence of the Spanish American revolutions (1808–26) on Washington Irving’s early nineteenth-century writings and, in particular, on his popular 1828 biography of Christopher Columbus. Irving’s conception of America as a multinational hemisphere...

...Annette Trefzer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Annette Looking for the Real South: Regional, National, Trefzer and Hemispheric Perspectives Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War. By Ritchie Devon...

.... Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere . By Anna Brickhouse. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 329 pp. $70.00. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire . By Gretchen Murphy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. Cloth, $74.95...

... portrayal of slavery through contemporaneous changes in contract law. Surveying the numerous legal documents that accumulate within and between the novella and its source text, Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817), the essay compares contracts...

... Revolutionary time and space. By the time of the novel's abrupt ending, Delany had developed a hemispheric context for black liberation that cannot be traced back to the eighteenth-century corruptions of American republicanism. Finally, Doolen makes a case for Blake 's literary complexity by emphasizing...

..., and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) and his serially published novel of circum-Caribbean slave insurrection, Blake (1859, 1861–62). Mattox argues that in an antebellum era marked by struggles over the rights of black Americans and by growing U.S. hemispheric claims, the attention...

...Christina Zwarg When mesmerism first came to this hemisphere by way of St. Domingue, a complex association between radical abolition and the new science was born. Harriet Beecher Stowe takes up that association in her second abolitionist novel Dred . In so doing she charts an emergent trauma theory...

... of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The essay argues for a notion of “adaptive belonging” as a formal and political strategy for coping with neoliberal policies’ hemispheric shift. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 transnationalism gender neoliberalism border Latina and Latino...

.... Tracing the Cotton Farmer ’s hemispheric circulation from the Mississippi delta to Panama, this essay explores the intersections of labor, literacy, and diaspora in the global black south. What do we make of a reading public among black tenant farmers on a corporate cotton plantation in the Mississippi...

...Sean X. Goudie This essay brings into dialogue discrete conversations in Caribbean studies, international political economy (IPE), and hemispheric American studies. Contextualizing these fields through the trope of hospitality, a figure of particular significance in Caribbean-U.S. relations...

...Katy Chiles Martin Delany's Blake; or the Huts of America , a serialized novel about a black West Indian who plans a hemispheric slave rebellion, theorizes the nineteenth-century nation-state. While scholars have drawn connections between seriality and the establishment of nation-states, Blake...

... possibilities that the Arctic and Antarctic regions offer to hemispheric and transnational conversations, as well as to more recent calls to reorganize critical thinking from a planetary perspective. Blum explores the difference in resources, both material and critical, presented by polar spaces. By resources...

... States. It pays particular attention to the intersections of nationality, citizenship, and class that complicate concepts of Latin@ hemispheric unity. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 literary journalism Latina and Latino literature nonfiction transnationalism cosmopolitanism...

... States, the subject position of the writer as experiencer , and in Latin America, the subject position of the writer as reader [ lector ]” (8). The first part of the study makes a lengthy case for divergent hemispheric foundations. While based on “dominants” only, the distinction provokes the reader...