ISBN:
9783825369484
,
382536948X
Language:
English
Pages:
232 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie Band 20
Series Statement:
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas
DDC:
303.4827
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Amerika
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Amerikabild
;
Literatur
;
Demokratie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This volume collects original contributions discussing aspects, dimensions, and major problems of cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Looking at the Americas as a site of multi-directional entanglement and interaction, the chapters highlight the non-English and non-European contexts of the United States from the 18th to the 20th century. They focus on processes of cultural hybridity resulting from the encounter of European, Native American, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. 0Contributions to this volume come from the fields of history, political science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Besides investigating the intellectual construction of the Americas, the texts analyze the history of slavery and emancipation, trace African Diasporas in Colombia and Brazil, critically assess the problem of democracy in Latin America, and scrutinize phenomena of literary entanglements in the Western hemisphere
Note:
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