Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies

Rethinking the Americas: Crossing Borders and Disciplines

Spring 2004, Volume 1

Cathy L. Jrade, Editor

Illustration: By Joaquín Torres-García (Círculo y cuadrado, May 1, 1936).

ISSN 15475743 (online)

ISSN 15475735 (print) 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 

CATHY L. JRADE.   Introduction

 I. CROSSING DISCIPLINES: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE

OF INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES                                                  

EARL FITZ.   Inter-American Studies as an Emerging Field:

The Future of a Discipline

MARSHALL EAKIN.  Does Latin America Have a  Common History?    

LUCIUS OUTLAW.  Rethinking the Americas, Rethinking

African American Studies

II.  REDEFINING LITERARY BOUNDARIES: WRITING THE AMERICAS

WILLIAM LUIS. (Dis) locating the  I  of the  Yo  in Julia Álvarez's Yo

and Mario Vargas Llosa's La fiesta del Chivo

CATHY L. JRADE. Modernization, Feminism, and Delmira Agustini

DEBORAH COHN. William Faulkner's Ibero-American Novel Project: 

The Politics of Translation and the Cold War

III.  DEFINING AND REDEFINING IDENTITIES: WHAT HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY MAKE OF THE AMERICAS

GORDON BROTHERSTON.  American Genesis as Doctrine

PHILIP HOWARD. Interpreting the Experiences of the African Diaspora in the Americas

TED FISCHER. Strategic Identities and Subversive Narratives: On Being Maya in a Globalized World

Contributors