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Inter-Americas Studies
(Contacts: Kristen Gruesz or Susan
Gilman )
Now in its third year, this cluster continues to pursue an ongoing, interdisciplinary
project in Comparative Americas Studies, seeking newly invigorated dialogues among
Anglo-American, African-American, Caribbean, and Latin American texts. Some recent
and recently reexamined models and issues: region, nation, and empire in the Spanish
Borderlands, Black Atlantic, and World-Systems New World; diasporic and transnational
movements (Pan Africanism and Latinoamericanismo); comparative histories of mestizaje
and miscegenation; comparative studies of nationalist film melodrama. In 1998-99,
the cluster plans to continue its focus on imperialism in the Americas in this
centenary year of 1998, and to introduce a more detailed study of the theoretical
bases of archival recovery efforts, such as the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic
Literary Heritage Project," based in Houston.
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