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Imagining Our Americas

Imagining Our Americas

Toward a Transnational Frame

  • Author: Shukla, Sandhya; Tinsman, Heidi
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: Radical Perspectives
  • ISBN: 9780822339502
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822389958
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2007
  • Month: July
  • Pages: 424
  • DDC: 305.80097/0904
  • Language: English
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North and South. In the volume’s substantial introduction, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, explain the need to move beyond the paradigm of U.S. American Studies and Latin American Studies as two distinct fields. They point out the Cold War origins of area studies, and they note how many of the Americas’ most significant social formations have spanned borders if not continents: diverse and complex indigenous societies, European conquest and colonization, African slavery, Enlightenment-based independence movements, mass immigrations, and neoliberal economies.

Scholars of literature, ethnic studies, and regional studies as well as of anthropology and history, the contributors focus on the Americas as a broadly conceived geographic, political, and cultural formation. Among the essays are explorations of the varied histories of African Americans’ presence in Mexican and Chicano communities, the different racial and class meanings that the Colombian musical genre cumbia assumes as it is absorbed across national borders, and the contrasting visions of anticolonial struggle embodied in the writings of two literary giants and national heroes: José Martí of Cuba and José Rizal of the Philippines. One contributor shows how a pidgin-language mixture of Japanese, Hawaiian, and English allowed second-generation Japanese immigrants to critique Hawaii’s plantation labor system as well as Japanese hierarchies of gender, generation, and race. Another examines the troubled history of U.S. gay and lesbian solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Building on and moving beyond previous scholarship, this collection illuminates the productive intellectual and political lines of inquiry opened by a focus on the Americas.

Contributors. Rachel Adams, Victor Bascara, John D. Blanco, Alyosha Goldstein, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Ian Lekus, Caroline F. Levander, Susan Y. Najita, Rebecca Schreiber, Sandhya Shukla, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Michelle Stephens, Heidi Tinsman, Nick Turse, Rob Wilson

  • Contents
  • About the Series
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Across the Americas
  • Up from Empire: JamesWeldon Johnson, Latin America,and the Jim Crow South
  • Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar’s Ismael and Rizal’sMartí at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Confederate Cuba
  • Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidginin Milton Murayama’s All I Asking for Is My Body
  • Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, andHuman Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
  • Tracking the ‘‘China Peril’’ along the U.S. Pacific Rim: Carpetbaggers,Yacht People, 1.2 Billion Cyborg Consumers, and the Bamboo Gang,Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You!
  • Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discoursesin Atlantic American Studies
  • Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America
  • Queer Harvests: Homosexuality, the U.S. New Left, and theVenceremos Brigades to Cuba
  • Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism,and the Politics of Form
  • The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, andCommunity Education in Puerto Rico
  • All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanizationof a Tropical Genre
  • ‘‘Panama Money’’: Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism
  • Contributors
  • Index

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