An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including contributions from canonical figures in the field as well as a younger generation of scholars, reflecting the foundation and emergence of the field and establishing links between older and newer methodologies, this Companion covers:
- Theoretical reflections
- Colonial and historical perspectives
- Cultural and political intersections
- Border discourses
- Sites and mobilities
- Literary and linguistic perspectives
- Area studies, global studies, and postnational studies
- Phenomena of transfer, interconnectedness, power asymmetry, and transversality within the Americas.
An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. It includes contributions from canonical figures in the field, as well as a younger generation of scholars, to reflect the foundation and emergence of the field and to establish a link between older and newer methodologies.
"The time has certainly come for overviews and handbooks that define the fields and its disciplinary history and problems more comprehensively ... Rassert's Routledge Companion is therefore a most welcome publication." -- Helmbrecht Breinig (Erlangen)
