Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas

Edited by Volker Depkat and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson in collaboration with Jasmin Falk.

This volume collects 11 contributions discussing aspects, dimensions, and major problems of cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters highlight the non-English and non-European contexts of the United States from the 18th to the 20th century. They focus on processes of cultural hybridity resulting from the encounter of European, Native American, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. Contributions to this volume come from the fields of history, political science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Besides investigating the intellectual construction of the Americas, the texts analyze the history of slavery and emancipation, trace African Diasporas in Colombia and Brazil, critically assess the problem of democracy in Latin America, and scrutinize phenomena of literary entanglements in the Western hemisphere. 232 Seiten mit neun Farb- und fünf s/w-Abb., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy; Vol. 20/Universitätsverlag Winter 2019) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint