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Los sucesos americanos de inicios del siglo XIX, amén de sus aspectos propiamente políticos y administrativos, comportaron también la instalación de nacientes modos de expresión y significado de la palabra y la escritura públicas. Los que se desarrollaron en tal sentido en la Buenos Aires de entonces representan lo que, matices más matices menos, también aconteció en los demás centros urbanos de la región, precipitándose hacia un amplio panorama de cambios en las formas y funciones del discurso en sus distintas matrices. Cuál es el lugar de una "literatura" en ese contexto, cuáles los modos de leer, cuáles las figuras de letrados, cuáles las tensiones propias de los nuevos escenarios que anteceden a las revoluciones de Independencia; cuál. en definitiva, es la modernidad a la que se asoma América en esa hora poco explorada por nuestra historia se pregunta el autor de esta obra, tras lo cual nos invita a explorar y apreciar el conjunto de experiencias en que se plasmó la interacción entre la ciudad y un futuro tan incierto como promisorio.

History of the Americas

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Decolonizing "Prehistory" combines a critical investigation of the documentation of the American deep past with perspectives from Indigenous traditional knowledges and attention to ongoing systems of intellectual colonialism. Bringing together experts from American studies, archaeology, anthropology, legal studies, history, and literary studies, this interdisciplinary volume offers essential information about the complexity and ambivalence of colonial encounters with Indigenous peoples in North America, and their impact on American scientific discourse. The chapters in this book reveal how anthropology, archaeology, and cultural heritage have shaped the collective ideological construction of Indigenous cultures, while actively empowering the voices that disrupt conventional tropes and narratives of "prehistory." Constructions of America's ancient past-or the invention of American "prehistory"-occur in national and international political frameworks, which are characterized by struggles over racial and ethnic identities, access to resources and environmental stewardship, the commodification of culture for touristic purposes, and the exploitation of Indigenous knowledges and histories by industries ranging from education to film and fashion. The past's ongoing appeal reveals the relevance of these narratives to current-day concerns about individual and collective identities and pursuits of sovereignty and self-determination, as well as to questions of the origin-and destiny-of humanity. Decolonizing "Prehistory" critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Contributors: Rick Budhwa, Keith Thor Carlson, Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Jessica Christie, Philip J. Deloria, Melissa Gniadek, Annette Kolodny, Gesa Mackenthun, Christen Mucher, Naxaxalhts'i (aka Sonny McHalsie), Jeff Oliver, Mathieu Picas, Daniel Lord Smail, Coll Thrush

History / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas --- History

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Die Erfindung der Amerikas ist nicht mit der Auffindung Amerikas gleichzusetzen. Das Erfundene geht bei der Genese der Amerikas dem Gefundenen voraus und verändert dieses Aufgefundene so, dass in einem dialektischen Prozess das Erfundene und das Gefundene wie Fiktion und Realität sich wechselseitig durchdringen. Für ein Leben und Erleben der Amerikas bildet dies die Grundlage für die indigene Bevölkerung wie für deren „Entdecker", für die deportierten Sklaven wie für die herbeigeschafften Coolies. Die Vorlesungen zeichnen diesen faszinierenden und bis heute anhaltenden Prozess detailreich nach. Dafür werden Texte, Karten und andere Bezugsquellen aus dem Bereich des Spanischen, Italienischen und Französischen, aber auch in lateinischer, englischer und deutscher Sprache herangezogen, um die komplexe Entwicklung herauszuarbeiten, welche über verschiedene Phasen beschleunigter Globalisierung – aber auch über zwischengeschaltete Phasen der Entschleunigung – bis in unsere Gegenwart fortdauert: von der Antike bis nach der Postmoderne, von Columbus bis Castro, von de Pauw bis Baudrillard, von den frühen „Entdeckern", Reisenden und Chronisten bis zu heutigen Vertreter*innen von Literatur, Philosophie, Kultur- und Globalisierungstheorie. During the genesis of the Americas, "invention" was not the same thing as "discovery": what was invented preceded what was found and changed that discovery to the extent that both mutually permeated each other. This formed the foundation for both the indigenous population and their "discoverers," for deported slaves and for procured coolies. This lecture volume traces this process in detail, which still continues to this day.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- Americas. --- Colonization. --- Globalization. --- Travel literature.

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Spurred by a new wave of protests around the world - from the Occupy movement, Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring, and the various street marches against neoliberal governments throughout Latin America - Raussert examines how artistic practices in the Americas have challenged the control of public space in relation to gender, race, sexuality, class, and age in three periods (the 1920s and 1930s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the new millennium). This inter-American perspective sheds light on common utopian aspirations across time and space, as in the networked movements of indigenous, African-descended and the diasporic groups, epitomized by the Zapatista slogan: “Mientras los medios de comunicación sigan mintiendo, las paredes seguirán hablando” (As long as the media continues to lie, the walls will continue to talk). Indeed, this must-read book shows how contesting artists subvert the increasing privatization, consumerization and electronic monitoring of public space and its virtualization in the new media in our own time period. | George Yúdice (Professor of Latin American Studies and Modern Literature at the University of Miami, U.S.A.)

Public space, artistic practices, street art, the social, the Americas

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Pan-Americanism --- Panaméricanisme --- Canadian Foundation for the Americas --- Fondation canadienne pour les Amériques --- Canadian Foundation for the Americas. --- America --- Canada --- Amérique --- America. --- Canada. --- Latin America. --- Relations