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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Claudia Milian Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America . By Anderson Mark D. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . x , 241 pp. Cloth , $49.50 ; paper , $22.50 ; e-book , $22.50 . Race, Ethnicity, and Nuclear War...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 704–707.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in a global space while at the same time revealing its regional specificities? How can postcolonial and post- structuralist perspectives be productive for the study of Southern lit- erature and culture? What new texts, both from within the U.S. South and from other Souths such as Cuba, Mexico, Latin...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 848–850.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Ralph E. Rodriguez Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night . By DeGuzmán María . Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 310 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $23.99 . Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Monica Hanna Abstract Some of the most compelling and widely consumed US Latin@ literature being produced at the turn of the twenty-first century is literary journalism in the form of the chronicle, a transnational and transhistorical genre that draws on US and Latin American literary traditions...
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American Literature 11792411.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Ruth Hill Abstract Scholars behind the epistemological turn in Latin American literary and cultural studies have paid scant attention to seventeenth-century science and scientific eclecticism. Yet, the ancient Greek school of philosophy known as eclecticism inspired Baroque philosophers to fuse...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., this essay establishes the corporate plantation as a heuristic for exploring the imperial logics and practices tying the US South to the larger project of colonial domination in the Caribbean and Latin America, and ultimately reexamines black transnationalism and diaspora from the position of corporate...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 871–886.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... 2003. xiv, 175 pp. $37.50. A common assumption among scholars of Latin American literature is that English professors view Gabriel García Márquez and magical realism as the sum total of Latin American letters.1 My recent move from a faculty position in Spanish to one in English, advertised...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
Published: 01 December 2006
... for the South of Africa and Latin America, respectively. All three books have in com- mon an extension of the notion of the South beyond its geographic, regional, and national boundaries. In South to a New Place the contributors are guided by the editors’ concern with redefinitions of the region...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 483–509.
Published: 01 September 2005
... comparison between older decolonization movements in the Americas and compa- rable movements in what he refers to as ‘‘the East’’ at the beginning of the twentieth century, calling Europe’s colonial policies in Africa and Asia at that time ‘‘conquistador 4 Although Peru and most of Latin America had...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 169–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Antonio Barrenechea The second half of Anxieties of Experience includes chapters on the distinct formations of US and Latin American literatures based on Lawrence’s thesis. The author provides much valuable insight here, especially on Roberto Bolaño, whom he credits with merging the reader...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 171–181.
Published: 01 March 2014
...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...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 847–858.
Published: 01 December 2006
... nation—vulnerable to the changing winds and fashions of the global marketplace’’ (62). The next two essays, by Raymond A. Mohl and David A. Reimers, deal, respectively, with the Latinization of the South and with the growth of Asian communities. Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu’s essay on the influx...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and Toni Morrison’s Africanism. Hispanicism provided US Americans with “the reflexive grounds necessary to constitute nationality” (14) with Spanish and Spanish Americans as liminal border figures, helping to shape Anglo-American identity. Hispanicism also served to justify imperialism in Latin America...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2014
...- or transnationalism in which Chicana/o subjectivities cor- relate to hybrid Chicana/o spaces, or border zones” (7), she offers an expan- sive view of Chicana/o literary history that singles out three moments—Latin American independence and US expansion, the Mexican Revolution, and Sep- tember 11, 2001—to reveal...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 205–211.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Mitchell emphasizes the interplay between histories of violence and claims to innocence, and how the American Adam allows American culture to seek refuge from moments of unstable futurity by renew- ing its nostalgic notions of itself as a hallowed Eden. Ecological Imaginations in Latin...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 714–716.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in a global space while at the same time revealing its regional specificities? How can postcolonial and post- structuralist perspectives be productive for the study of Southern lit- erature and culture? What new texts, both from within the U.S. South and from other Souths such as Cuba, Mexico, Latin...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 717–719.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in a global space while at the same time revealing its regional specificities? How can postcolonial and post- structuralist perspectives be productive for the study of Southern lit- erature and culture? What new texts, both from within the U.S. South and from other Souths such as Cuba, Mexico, Latin...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 719–722.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in a global space while at the same time revealing its regional specificities? How can postcolonial and post- structuralist perspectives be productive for the study of Southern lit- erature and culture? What new texts, both from within the U.S. South and from other Souths such as Cuba, Mexico, Latin...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 722–724.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in a global space while at the same time revealing its regional specificities? How can postcolonial and post- structuralist perspectives be productive for the study of Southern lit- erature and culture? What new texts, both from within the U.S. South and from other Souths such as Cuba, Mexico, Latin...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 691–692.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean become visible and relevant? How do these texts partici- pate in the (de)construction of a geopolitical locale such as the South? What happens to Southern communities under the pressure of eco- nomic, literary, and political globalization? What new and old...