THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO THE CULTURE AND MEDIA OF THE AMERICAS
Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.
The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how Inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts:
- Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments.
- Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property.
This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.
Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Co-founder of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Giselle Liza Anatol is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA.
Sebastian Thies is Chair for Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tbingen, Germany.
Sarah Corona Berkin is a Professor at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Jos Carlos Lozano is Research Fellow at the Tecnolgico de Monterrey, Mxico and Professor of Communication at Texas A&M International University, USA.
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Names: Raussert, Wilfried, editor. | Anatol, Giselle Liza, 1970- editor. | Thies, Sebastian, editor. | Lozano, Jos Carlos, 1958- editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook to the culture and media of the Americas / edited by Wilfried Raussert, Giselle Liza Anatol, Sebastian Thies, Sarah Corona Berkin and Jos-Carlos Lozano.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019044828 (print) | LCCN 2019044829 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138479821 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351064705 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular cultureAmerica. | Mass media and cultureAmerica. | Culture and globalizationAmerica. | AmericaCivilization.
Classification: LCC E20 .R68 2020 (print) | LCC E20 (ebook) |DDC 306.097dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019044828
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019044829
ISBN: 978-1-138-47982-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-06470-5 (ebk)
Giselle Liza Anatol is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora literature, African American literature, as well as childrens and young adult literature. One of her latest publications is The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora from 2015. She is also co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Culture and Media of the Americas.
Jess Arroyave is an Associate Professor at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla in Colombia. His research focuses on journalism and media studies, health communication and communication for development and social change. One of his most recent publications is De la Ecologa de Medios a la Ecologa Profunda de Medios: Esclarecer la Metfora y Visibilizar su Impacto Medioambiental Palabra Clave from 2017.
Anja Bandau is Professor for Romance Literatures and Cultures at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research focuses on Hispano- and Francophone literatures and cultures of the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as narratives of the Haitian Revolution, including a transatlantic perspective on the circulation of knowledge and aesthetic production in the Caribbean. One of her most recent books, which she co-edited, is Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean: Relaciones y Desconexiones Relations et Dconnexions Relations and Disconnections from 2018.
Anadeli Bencomo is a Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature at the University of Houston. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American Narrative, critical theory, as well as cultural studies. One of her latest publications, which she co-authored, is Ir y Venir. Procesos transnacionales entre Amrica Latina y el norte from 2017.
Miriam Brandel is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research focuses on Inter-American, North American, and Postcolonial Studies, with a specific interest in 20th and 21st century Caribbean Diaspora literatures and sociocultural phenomena concerning processes of migration and identity in North America. One of her most recent publications, which she co-edited, is Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics from 2018.
Antonio Caldern is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education and Humanities at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. His research focuses on regulation of digital media, cultural industries as well as media system. One of his most recent publications is