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The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is an exciting collection of essays representative of new voices in this ever-expanding field. Writing in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole, the volume's contributors look at the fields

Selected key tropes in inter-American studies : ways of looking at entangled Americas / Wilfried Raussert -- Tropos clave seleccionados en estudios interamericanos : modos para enfocar las Americas entrelazadas / Wilfried Raussert -- [1] Colonial/neocolonial -- Haunted by Spain : the past and identities in English and French America / Jonathan Hart -- Del progreso al orden : letrados y poder en el origen de los Estados-nación en el Sur Americano / Alejandra Bottinelli -- [2] Independence -- Re-enacting independence through nostalgia : the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial after the Vietnam War / David Ryan -- La independencia de Brasil : movimientos entre espacios y el contexto de las revoluciones atlánticas, 1808-1831 / Stefan Rinke -- [3] Religion -- Going native with God on the side : mission as traveling culture / Rüdiger Kunow -- Pombagira y el obispo : sobre identidades religiosas transnacionales / Heinrich Schäfer -- [4] Border -- The centrality of the Canada-U.S. border for hemispheric studies of the Americas / Claudia Sadowski-Smith -- Trascendiendo límites : la frontera México-Estados Unidos en el cine / Norma Iglesias -- [5] Mobility -- Identity and in-betweenness : hybridity as transcultural mobility in the music of Native American R. Carlos Nakai and his band Jackalope / Deborah Gail -- Migración de tránsito y ayuda humanitaria : apuntes sobre las casas de migrantes en la ruta migratoria del Pacífico sur en México / Yaatsil Guevara -- [6] Race/indigeneity -- Negotiating violence and identity in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Georgio Mariani -- Un continente "de color" : Langston Hughes y América Latina / Astrid Haas -- [7] Gender -- Becoming "La chiquilla de Tijuana" and "Staging contradiction" : Ruby Gardenia's Lucha libre exótica in a Mexican border city / Tabea Huth -- Deterritorializadas y deslenguadas, pero heroizadas : Concepción Benavídez, Juana García, y Celaya Reyes / Margarita Ramos and Sara Quintero-Ramirez -- [8] Decolonial reflections -- La ética Andino-Cristiana de los relatos de condenados / Gonzalo Portocarrero -- Decolonial reflections on hemispheric partitions : the "Western Hemisphere" in the colonial horizon of modernity and the irreversible historical shift to the "Eastern Hemisphere" / Walter Mignolo

The Cold War also triggered a cultural battle between the Soviets and U.S. Americans. Both aimed to radiate their own social and cultural models, together with their own ideologies, in their rival's sphere of influence, and above all, to check the expansion of their opponent's values in their own sphere. The promotion and diffusion of U.S. or American Studies in the universities of the Western European block was part of that conflict. To date, little is known about the people who tried to improve European appreciation of U.S. History, Art, Literature or Political Science, or about the means they used. This article will also discuss more general issues of the cultural cold war, such as: When did the U.S. propaganda machine start to function? or Did the Soviet Union invest more in propaganda than the United States? ; Con el inicio de la Guerra Fría se desencadenó también una batalla cultural entre soviéticos y estadounidenses. El propósito de unos y otros fue irradiar sus respectivos modelos socio-culturales e ideologías en el campo rival y, sobre todo, frenar la expansión de los valores contrarios en el propio. La promoción y difusión de los Estudios Norteamericanos o American Studies en las universidades del bloque europeo occidental formó parte de aquel conflicto. Poco sabemos por el momento acerca de quién, o quiénes, y con qué medios intentaron que la Historia, el Arte, la Literatura o la Ciencia Política estadounidenses fuesen mejor conocidos por los ciudadanos del viejo continente. En las páginas que siguen pretendemos arrojar algo de luz sobre esos interrogantes. Simultáneamente y desde la perspectiva de lo sucedido en torno a los American Studies, se aportarán datos e indicios para la reflexión sobre cuestiones del contexto general de la Guerra Fría.

Traducción del italiano por Alberto Mario Damiani. ; El trabajo da cuenta, breve y sintéticamente, de algunos estudios del Autor sobre la difusión del pensamiento de Vico en la cultura filosófica y política italiana de principios del siglo XIX. ; This work gives a brief account of some of the author's studies on the diffusion of Vico's thought in early Nineteenth Century Italian philosophical and political culture. ; Il contributo offre un resoconto breve e sintetico di alcuni studi dell'Autore sulla diffusiones del pensiero di Vico nella cultura filosofica e politica italiana del primo Ottocento.

This volume brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women's, gender, and queer studies. As its title reflects, the book adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called "others" present in these fields. Since queer theory first appeared in academia, its influence has been notorious within both women's and genders. As such, it is vital to "queer" academia so that it re-conceptualises its foundations; indeed, the contributions here serve to alter the reader's consciousness of the terms "woman" and "gender".The first chapters concern the field of discourse analysis. Two discuss the written work of female scientists in the Late Modern Era and their role in society. Another deals with women's political discourse in South America. In the following section on literature, the contributors question the current heteronormative and androcentric ways of reading texts. The works on culture study contemporary genres, such as video games, video clips, and pieces of news, and take readers away from Europe. The Epilogue draws on the book's intersubjective spirit to propose a dialogue, among multiple disciplines and the people who practise them. As such, the volume reflects the eclectic nature of queer, women's, and gender studies, and their world-wide acceptance by the scholarly community

The studies of the left movement are a specific branch for the history of the 20th century. In the USSR, this implicitly academic problem always had political features and content imposed by the ideology and the prevailing political line of the single party of the government, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which since the days of the Comintern claimed to be the conductor of the international communist movement and arbitrator for other movements on the lefts. To carry out this task in the USSR there were academic institutions whose objective was to provide the study and the elaboration of recommendations on the problematic points of politics, and at the same time fulfill the propagandistic role within the dominant ideology. However, within this rigid ideological system in the academic-university environment, heterodox ideas and concepts emerged that was like a living bonfire of Marxist thought in an ideologically sterilized country. This text tries to recover Soviet thought in the sphere of academic studies on the Latin American left. ; Los estudios de la izquierda se convirtieron en una rama específica de la historia del siglo XX. En la URSS, esta problemática implícitamente académica siempre tuvo rasgos y contenidos políticos impuestos por la ideología y la línea política imperante del partido único del gobierno, el Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética, que desde las épocas de la Internacional Comunista pretendió ser el timonel de todo el movimiento comunista internacional y arbitro para otros movimientos de la izquierda. Para efectuar esta tarea en la URSS existieron instituciones académicas cuyo objetivo era suministrar el estudio y la elaboración de las recomendaciones sobre los puntos problemáticos de la política, y al mismo tiempo cumplir el papel propagandístico de la ideología dominante. Sin embargo, dentro de este sistema ideológico rígido, en el ámbito académico-universitario surgieron ideas y conceptos heterodoxos que fueron como una fogata viva del pensamiento marxista en un país esterilizado ideológicamente. Este texto trata de recuperar el pensamiento soviético en la esfera de los estudios académicos de la izquierda latinoamericana.

The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. 'Fifteenth-Century Studies' offers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Following the customary opening article on the current state of fifteenth-century drama research, essays treat such topics as poetry as a source for illustrated German prose, the St. Edith picture cycle in Salisbury, the flourishing of French history; and Spanish schools of translators. Other essays treat poems from the 'Gruuthuse' songbook; Louis XI and pilgrim's dress, Robert Henryson's 'Moral Fabilles,' violence in English romances, Jews' presence through absence in Vicente Ferrer's 'Sermons,' and Conrad Buitzruss's recipe collection in Manuscript Clm 671 (Munich). Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Edelgard E. DuBruck, James H. Brown, Mary Dockray-Miller, Jean Dufournet, Rocío del Río Fernández, Bas Jongenelen and Ben Parsons, Jennifer Lee, John Marlin, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Daniel Salas-Días, Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian. Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor emerita of French and Humanities at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan, and Barbara I. Gusick is professor emerita of English at Troy University, Dothan, Alabama