Spaces-communities-discourses
Subtitle: charting identity and belonging in the Americas
By: Josef Raab & Saskia Hertlein (eds.).
Series: Inter-American studies -- volume 15
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tempe, AZ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781939743138
Subjects: Multiculturalism in mass media; Mass media and culture; Identity (Psychology) in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spaces. Josef Raab: The violent conundrum of the megacity in Cidade de deus, Amores perros, and Crash; title: Minni Sawhney: Mexican border literature: peripheral or alternative?; title: Sophia A. McClennen: Life in the red zone; or, the geographies of neoliberalism; title: Horst Tonn: "Can anyone tell me what time it is?" time and the future in Ruben Martinez's The other side; title: Antje Dieterich: Representations of indigeneity in the border space Mexico/U.S.A. or, becoming indigenous in Aztlan; title: Alexia Schemien: "You people used to be conquistadores for Christ's sake": an inter-American perspective on Breaking bad; title: 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; title: 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'; title: Margarita Lopez Maya: Communal councils: analyzing the perception of participants in Caracas; title: Kathrin Luckmann de Lopez: The role of lanaguage indexing ethnic identity in short stories  by Mary Helen Ponce; title: Insa Neumann: Dropping the Hyphen: American identity construction in the hyphenated family; title: Birthe W. Horn:  An interview with Chicana performance artist Monica Palacios; title: Saskia Hertlein:  Inter-American identities in contemporary coming-of-age fiction; title: Discourses. Carmen Marteniz Novo:  The twenty-first century left in Latin America and indigenous rights; title: Florian Sedlmeir:  Intermedial exhaustion in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and  the problem of comparison; title: Frank Erik Pointner: The qualitative and quantitative construction of a Latin American diaspora in Gilbert Hernandez's graphic novels; title: Yolanda Melgar Pernêas: Photographing border consciousness: Norma Elia Canto's Cancula snapshots of a girlhood en la frontera; title: Breanne Robertson: Mayans, maize and the Middle West: remaking American identity in the Ames mural competition; title: Berndt Ostendorf: The rise and fall of multicultural theory and practice: the ideological contradictions of belonging.