...Ralph Bauer Abstract This position paper offers a reflection on Edmundo O’Gorman’s seminal La invención de América as a critique of the New World exceptionalism underwriting much of twentieth-century hemispheric American studies. It suggests that the paradigm of New World exceptionalism emerges...

... as nature, itself characterized by excess and subsequent disorder in the play. Hamlet’s description of his world is of           an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. (1.2.135–37) 4 In a play that sees human disorder in environmental terms...

... with our initial introductions to the decolonial school of thought, and subsequent interactions with feminist praxis began as a result of disciplinary interest. We came together as friends, sisters, and allies discovering new ways to frame our experiences of growing up amid oscillating cycles of violence...

... are strongly supporting the developm ent of "new constellations of practice" in the environm ental hum anities tha t are offer insight into how we w ill "integrated knowledges" from diverse cultures from around the world, but also diverse academic cultures in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, as we...

... of the terrestrial world, producing a new sense of planetary scale and interconnectedness through the rising of a world ocean.” 2 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble , 1 . 3 Haraway, When Species Meet , 244 . For a succinct discussion of Haraway’s “becoming with,” see Wright, “Becoming...

... fluidity that enables the hydrographic world to be at once global and microecological. The modes of inquiry variously known as oceanic studies, hydro-criticism, the new thalassology, and the blue humanities situate the seas and other waterways—not “territory” per se—as central to critical conversations...

... de nuevos códigos, prejuicios y dogmas. [the labor of the theorist who does not dogmatize constitutes an invaluable aid for novelists or critics who practice fiction inasmuch as it allows them to examine from new perspectives the material in which they express themselves, to disrupt...

... in Sunsetcorp’s 2009 single “nobody here” and the manifestations of American political trauma after 9/11 in Cat System Corporation’s signalwave album, News at 11 (2016). Unlike the above-mentioned texts, which range from true-life disaster and war movies including World Trade Center (2006) and The Hurt...

... . Seeking more nuanced comparisons not only challenges us to better understand the details of contemporary fascism but also reinforces the remembrance of less-known atrocities at risk for erasure in world history. In October 1937 the Parsley Massacre took up to twenty thousand lives in less than a week...

..., an erection and dopamine walk into a gay bar. This statem ent is ridiculous and absurd, but its disturbing a ffe ct reaches into an abject new m aterialist space where transgressive laughter concerning human waste and queer sexuality push back against appropriate social scripts to show "th a t the discursive...

... of legal authority. Abandoning his new w ife Suzy, Vargas hurries to the flam ing car on the American side of the border where, soon thereafter, Hank Quinlan arrives. Quinlan con­ fronts Vargas about his presence in an American investigation and Vargas demurs, ceding Quinlan's apparent authority even as he...

... strategic appropriation) of animist cosmologies in modern Africana social texts. Inspired by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature, and the African World , scholars such as Caroline Rooney, Harry Garuba, Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ , and others have brought “new animism” (to use Graham Harvey’s phrase...

... w w .ric h m o n d . com /new s/national-world/governm ent-politics/article _ 57addb83-1fd5-5ab0-b900-3f3d46192b5c.htm l. 3 For a good overview of the environm ental im plica tions of M erleau-P onty's w ork, see Ted Toadvine, M erieau-P onty's Philosophy o f Nature (Evanston, IL: N orthw estern U...

... l l 2 0 1 7 as well as contributions th a t o ffe r new non-W estern trajectories for re-thinking eco-m em ­ ory, indigenous epistemologies and situated knowledges. Many of the contributors to this frame share an interest in rethinking older as well as newer theories of tim e and place...

... and heteronormative regulation offers additional illustration of my historical claim that workplace relations were beginning to present new, albeit fraught, opportunities for the pulp lesbian im agination.5 D e r e g u la t io n 's v e rs a tile lo gic, w h ic h la tc h e s o n t o a w i d e a rra y o f c o n t e x t...

... in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death o f a Discipline (New York: Columbia UP, 2003). We were also obviously influenced by scholarship such as Janet Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989); K. N. Chaudhuri's Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation...

... talents in shaping its own future and environm ent" as establishing, a "noösphere," a world of consciousness working its power over m atter. In these precedents for the concept of the Anthropocene, "the human" as generic consciousness is the sole power in spite of such dramatic alterations...

..., that the humanities, across disciplines, vociferously advocate the principle that knowledge and understanding emerge only In and through relationships. There have o f course been wide-ranging versions o f socially inform ed criticism during the last forty years Marxist, reader response, new historicist, post-colonial...

... .” Professional Geographer 52 , no. 4 ( 2000 ): 672 – 84 . Alexander Elizabeth . The Light of the World: A Memoir . New York : Grand Central , 2015 . Berlant Lauren . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Billson Marcus . “ The Memoir: New...

... from new access to the depths during the World War II era, developed by both Allied and Axis militaries, in conjunction with new discoveries in science and new innovations in technology. This new access would take off in the immediate post–World War II years and transform oceanography, marine biology...