Hemispheric encounters : the early United States in a transnational perspective /
Pisarz-Ramírez, Gabriele,editor.
Heide, Markus,editor.
"In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a nation and as individuals was shaped by such historical events and social issues as the Haitian Revolution, the struggles for independence in Spanish America, ties with Caribbean slave economies, and rivalries with other colonial powers in the Americas. Contextualizing transatlantic and inter-American relations within a framework of the Western Hemisphere, the essays collected in this volume discuss inter-American relations in the early United States, and in American, European and Spanish-American writing of the period."--
"This volume originates in a conference on the topic of "Hemispheric Encounters" that took place at Leipzig University in April 2012 and that provided a forum for discussion for early Americanists from Europe and the US with a research interest in transnational approaches."--  Introduction.
"In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a nation and as individuals was shaped by such historical events and social issues as the Haitian Revolution, the struggles for independence in Spanish America, ties with Caribbean slave economies, and rivalries with other colonial powers in the Americas. Contextualizing transatlantic and inter-American relations within a framework of the Western Hemisphere, the essays collected in this volume discuss inter-American relations in the early United States, and in American, European and Spanish-American writing of the period."--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the early United States in a transnational perspective / Markus Heide and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez -- Part I. The two Americas: Spanish America and U.S. literary discourse -- Trouble on the western frontier: sedition and secessionism in the Ohio Valley 1783-1806 / Wil M. Verhoeven -- Empire-nation-urbanity: renewing scripts and frames in the Old Northwest / Barbara Buchenau -- The hemispheric frame and travel writing of the early United States: Zebulon Pike, Henry Marie Brackenridge, and William Duane / Markus Heide -- From "Southern brethren" to "Treacherous cowards": temporal narratives about Latin America in early nineteenth century US America / Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez -- Mexican travelers and the "Texas question" 1821-1836 / Astrid Haas -- Erasing the stamp of Toussaint l'Ouverture? the Haitian revolution and the question of character / Hannah Spahn -- Part II. Transnational perspectives and the western hemisphere -- The Algerine dilemma: (cons)piracy and the specter of North Africa in early US Barbary narratives / Stefan l. Brandt -- The Muslim slave auto/biography tradition: disrupting the master-slave dialectic in the Americas / Alma Villanueva -- "Subaltern knowledges in the borderlands": drawing the sexual boundaries of the early United States / Astrid Fellner.
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National characteristics, American
American literature
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
Hemispheric encounters.
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