<i>Hemispheric American Studies</i> (review)

John Havard

doi:10.1353/com.0.0049

Introduction

GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies ◽

10.1215/10642684-8994028 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 321-327

Author(s):

Joseph M. Pierce ◽

María Amelia Viteri ◽

Diego Falconí Trávez ◽

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz ◽

Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Working Group ◽

American Studies ◽

The United States ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Special Issue ◽

Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽

Hemispheric American Studies

Abstract This special issue questions translation and its politics of (in)visibilizing certain bodies and geographies, and sheds light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted the imperial gaze, or that remain untranslatable. Part of a larger scholarly and activist project of the Feminist and Cuir/Queer Américas Working Group, the special issue situates the relationships across linguistic and cultural differences as central to a hemispheric queer/cuir dialogue. We have assembled contributions with activists, scholars, and artists working through queer and cuir studies, gender and sexuality studies, intersectional feminisms, decolonial approaches, migration studies, and hemispheric American studies. Published across three journals, GLQ in the United States, Periódicus in Brazil, and El lugar sin límites in Argentina, this special issue homes in on the production, circulation, and transformation of knowledge, and on how knowledge production relates to cultural, disciplinary, or market-based logics.

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Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 356 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4222-5. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4223-2.)

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/25095598 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 95 (1) ◽

pp. 279-280

Author(s):

E. Hershberg

Keyword(s):

New Brunswick ◽

American Studies ◽

Rutgers University ◽

Hemispheric American Studies

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The Hemispheric Approach of Julia Alvarez’s Novels

REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos ◽

10.37536/reden.2020.2.1381 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 39-48

Author(s):

Mónica Fernández Jiménez

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

American Studies ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

Julia Alvarez ◽

Race And Racism ◽

Hemispheric American Studies ◽

Latino Literature ◽

The Caribbean

This article analyses three novels by Julia Alvarez–How the García Girls Lost their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and In the Name of Salomé (2000)– through the lenses of Hemispheric American Studies. Inspired by the teachings of Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s theoretical work The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (1992), I contend that the categorisation of these novels as Latino literature is not enough to describe all of their richness. These novels portray throughout their pages social, political, and artistic relations that tie all of the Americas together, and their analysis benefits from the essays written by Caribbean post-essentialist critics who developed, during the 1990s, a discourse based on the cultural supersyncretism of the islands that helps us to understand the postmodern globalised worlds as it stands. The novels by Alvarez reflect these theories, as they portray the realities of a New World constricted by the workings of race and racism, capitalism, and postcolonialism.

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