Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

Claudia Sadowski-Smith; Claire F. Fox

doi:10.1177/1477570004041287

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Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

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Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

Claudia Sadowski-Smith and Claire F. Fox

Comparative American studies, Vol.2(1), pp.5-38

03/01/2004

DOI: 10.1177/1477570004041287

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Abstract

This article advocates an 'inter-Americas studies' perspective that bridges the institutionalized fields of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies, which have traditionally provided separate means for studying the hemisphere. Since they encompass comparative orientations, Canadian and Latin American studies in particular have the potential to move existing work on the hemisphere beyond the currently dominant post-national assumptions of American studies. Our discussion of Canadian and Latin American studies emphasizes the different usage and degree of importance ascribed to critical terms like ethnicity, post-coloniality, post-nationality, and globalization. We argue that inter-Americas studies scholars will need to pay special attention to historically divergent forms of nation-state formation and intellectual analyses of nationalism in the Americas to arrive at more nuanced theories of continuing US domination in the hemisphere under conditions of globalization.

American Studies

Canadian Studies

Globalization

Latin American Studies

INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES

POST-NATIONALISM

POSTCOLONIALITY

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Title: Subtitle: Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies
Creators: Claudia Sadowski-Smith - Texas Tech University
Claire F. Fox - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Comparative American studies, Vol.2(1), pp.5-38
DOI: 10.1177/1477570004041287
ISSN: 1477-5700
eISSN: 1741-2676
Publisher: Routledge
Comment: Reprinted in: The International Turn in American Studies, edited by Marietta Messmer and Armin Paul Frank, 2015, Interamericana, Volume 7, p.321-357 - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1067584
Language: English
Date published: 03/01/2004
Academic Unit: International Programs; English; Spanish and Portuguese; Interdisciplinary Programs
Record Identifier: 9984398699702771

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