The book is a commemorative publication for Josef Raab and this collection of essays presents recent lines of research and results in the field of InterAmerican Studies. The book also opens new perspectives for future research. The collection of essays is interdisciplinary and brings together historical, film, literary and cultural studies approaches to the Americas. Renowned scholars and young researchers make this book a cross-disciplinary work highly suitable for scholars and students.


TABLE OF CONTENT


Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
WILFRIED RAUSSERT

Neither Same nor Separate: Hemispheric Horizons of American Studies ................ 11
JOSEF RAAB

The Power of Perceptions: Theodore Roosevelt, Latin America,
and the European Powers, 1898–1909 ..................................................................... 33
STEFAN RINKE

Breaking the Vicious Circle of Gang-Related Violence:
Central American Minors and the Current U.S. Refugee Regime ............................ 51
MARIETTA MESSMER

From Color to Whiteness: Thinking the Transfiguration of the Political Body
in the Americas from Evo Morales and Barack Obama to Jair Bolsonaro
and Donald Trump ................................................................................................... 75
OLAF KALTMEIER

Cecilia Absatz’s Los años pares or the Challenge of Reevaluating
Autochthonous Latinamericanism ........................................................................... 91
LUZ ANGÉLICA KIRSCHNER

Reclaiming Voices and Bodies of the Nobodies:
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ...................................... 107
ISABEL CALDEIRA

Saint or Scoundrel? Remembering and Representing Padre Martínez
in Early (Auto)Biography and Fiction ..................................................................... 121
ASTRID HAAS

Of Love Songs, Open Wounds, and (Almost) Everything In Between:
Borderlands and InterAmerican Literature ............................................................... 133
SASKIA HERTLEIN

Political Organization at the Grass-Roots Level in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s
The Revolt of the Cockroach People ........................................................................ 145
FRANCISCO A. LOMELÍ

The Politics of Remembering in Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel .................. 155
GABRIELE PISARZ-RAMIREZ
Silence and Voice in Villanueva’s Scene from the Movie GIANT ........................... 167

JULIANA FILLIES TESTA MUÑOZ
Piedra Rodante: The Memory of the Musical Consumption of a Generation
of Mexican Youth in the Seventies .......................................................................... 185
YOLANDA MINERVA CAMPOS GARCÍA

Sonic America(s): Politics of Recognition and Recent Trends
in Music Documentary ............................................................................................. 205
WILFRIED RAUSSERT

Noir Aesthetics, Institutional Racism, and Social Critique: Anthony Mann’s
Devil’s Doorway and the Denial of Legal Rights to First Americans ...................... 225
CHRIS LIPPARD

Border Crossings, Memory, and Performativity
in Juan Carlos Zaldívar’s 90 Miles (2001) ............................................................... 241
ANNETTE L. RUKWIED

Latinos on U.S. Primetime Entertainment Television .............................................. 259
CLARA E. RODRÍGUEZ

Prickly Politics in Borderlands Art: Aesthetic Activism
and the Barbed Wire Motif in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Artwork ................ 279
MARÍA HERRERA-SOBEK

Contributors ............................................................................................................. 305