Spaces—Communities—Discourses : charting identity and belonging in the Americas Spaces. Josef Raab: The violent conundrum of the megacity in Cidade de deus Amores perros and Crash Minni Sawhney: Mexican border literature: peripheral or alternative Sophia A. McClennen: Life in the red zone; or the geographies of neoliberalism Horst Tonn: Can anyone tell me what time it is time and the future in Ruben Martinezs The other side Antje Dieterich: Representations of indigeneity in the border space Mexico U.S.A. or becoming indigenous in Aztlan Alexia Schemien: You people used to be conquistadores for Christs sake : an inter American perspective on Breaking bad Communities. Allan Smith: Conceptualizing identitarian complexity in the geolinguistic regions of the Western hemisphere: the Spanish Portuguese and English speaking Americas on common analytical ground Gonzalo Portocarrero: The dynamics of cultural (dis)encounter: the rise of Sendero Luminoso as a paradigmatic case for a dialogue between the global and the local Margarita Lopez Maya: Communal councils: analyzing the perception of participants in Caracas Kathrin Luckmann de Lopez: The role of lanaguage indexing ethnic identity in short stories by Mary Helen Ponce Insa Neumann: Dropping the Hyphen: American identity construction in the hyphenated family Birthe W. Horn: An interview with Chicana performance artist Monica Palacios Saskia Hertlein: Inter American identities in contemporary coming of age fiction Discourses. Carmen Marteniz Novo: The twenty first century left in Latin America and indigenous rights Florian Sedlmeir: Intermedial exhaustion in Jamaica Kincaids Lucy and the problem of comparison Frank Erik Pointner: The qualitative and quantitative construction of a Latin American diaspora in Gilbert Hernandezs graphic novels Yolanda Melgar Pernêas: Photographing border consciousness: Norma Elia Cantos Cancula snapshots of a girlhood en la frontera Breanne Robertson: Mayans maize and the Middle West: remaking American identity in the Ames mural competition Berndt Ostendorf: The rise and fall of multicultural theory and practice: the ideological contradictions of belonging