What does a transnational inquiry look like, and can its deployment not only transit through disciplines but also translate—render visible and ethically interpret—localized embodiments and epistemologies in relation to hemispheric perspectives? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris calls on “translocalities” (Alvarez et al. 2014) precisely to unveil knowledges of trans and queer subjects, indigenous people, and political dissidents' embeddedness in failed progressive governments and their un-detachments to a history of violent regimes of power in the Americas. Beyond is fueled by the critical destabilizing linguistic and embodying marker of trans, a tool of inquiry and a way of being that unsettles disciplinary borders, gender and corporal limits, and national boundaries. Gómez-Barris calls for a transnational Americas studies, or a decolonial American studies, that engages with “the intersections and crosscurrents of interdisciplinary formations [that] pushes beyond the Cold War architecture of area studies” (11), emphasizing literary and...
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