AM ST Final Prep Flashcards
1
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Imperial Eyes
- contact zones
- transculturation
- anti-conquest
A
Mary Louise Pratt
2
Q
“Left Alone with America”
- anti-conquest as it relates to America
- US Empire
- 3 absences concerning US imperialism:
1. the absence of culture from the history of U.S. imperialism
2. the absence of empire in the study of American culture 3. the absence of the United States from the postcolonial study of imperialism. - intranational relations
- US racial issues in global context
A
Amy Kaplan
3
Q
” Borderlands/La Frontera” (Theory)
- border, borderlands, border culture
- mestizo/a, mestizaje
- Republica del Norte
A
Gloria Anzaldúa
4
Q
The Black Atlantic
- the black Atlantic rim/ world
- commerce/Triangle trade
- middle passage
- African-American exceptionalism
- coaltion politics of anti-racism & anti-imperialism
A
Paul Gilroy
5
Q
The Repeating Island
- meta-archipelago
- chaos theory
A
Antonio Benítez-Rojo
6
Q
“Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies”
- post-nationalists American Studies
- the new American Studies and the contact zone
A
John Carlos Rowe
7
Q
“Essays Beyond the Nation,”
* hemispheric American studies
A
Caroline F. Levander and Robert S Levine
8
Q
“American Studies without Exceptions”
- American Studies imperial import
- Congress for Cultural Freedom
A
Michael Bérubé
9
Q
“Uncanny Hybridities,”
- the US south as a colonized space
- hemispheric post plantation system
A
Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn
10
Q
“A New Beginning? Transnationalisms”
- aesthetic transnationalism
- political transnationalism
- disinterpellation
- transnational subject positions
A
Winfried Fluck
11
Q
“A New Beginning”
A
Barack Obama
