Books in the Interamericana series

This interdisciplinary volume addresses competing and conflicting configurations and narratives of spatialization in the context of globalization processes. It explores how the Americas were imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how these imaginations were guided by changing agendas and priorities.

This book discusses literary texts from English and French Canada, the US, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Bibliographic entries refer the reader to native American literature and culture. The periods focused on include the Colonial Period, the Nineteenth Century, Modernism and Modernity, the 1960s, and the Contemporary Moment.

This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust studies in a new American studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction.

After the American Revolution, U.S. American literature and culture were shaped by transatlantic and inter-American relations. Issues such as the Haitian Revolution, Spanish American independence, slave economies and colonialism influenced the ways Americans defined themselves as a nation and as individuals.

The author aims to expand the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally 'commute' between two national spheres. Her analyses include literary works of Elif Shafak, Halide Edip, Guneli Gun and Alev Lytle Croutier.

The book focuses on self-representations of indigenous groups in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. It offers a multifaceted understanding of North American indigenous history, identity, community and forms of culture. The examination of three intersecting themes - recovery, governance and global culture - further advances trans-indigenous studies.

This study examines the German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries and its important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity. The different chapters treat specific problems and criticize existing translation theories. In the concluding chapters a cohesive view of the entire process emerges.

This collection of essays attempts a critical reassessment of a wide range of often competing forms of internationalizing the discipline of American Studies - including trans- and post-national, international, (trans-)Atlantic, (trans-)Pacific, as well as hemispheric, trans-border, in-ter-American and comparative American Studies.