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Nationalism --- Decolonization --- History --- New World Group --- Caribbean Area --- Politics and government

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ORC Orchidaceae --- history of botany --- history of plants --- Masdevallia --- new world --- America --- botanical collectors --- botanical exploration --- botanical illustration --- nurseries --- hybrids --- botanists --- portraits

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This book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing "America" as not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their own design. This imposition of foreign textualities, however dominant, is never complete because the absences of the disappeared still linger manifestly, still are present. That apparent paradox results in a haunted America, whose conquest is always partial and whose conquered are always contestatory. Readers of scholarship by transatlanticists such as Paul Gilroy and hemispherists such as Diana Taylor will find new conceptualizations here of an America that knows no geographic boundaries, whose absences are collective but not necessarily interrelated by genealogy. The five principal texts at hand - Columbus's diary of his first voyage, the Popol Vuh of the Maya-K'iche', Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Evita's Cuando los Combes luchaban (the first African novel in Spanish), and Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - are examined as foundational stories of America in their imaginings of its transatlantic commencement. Interspersed too are shorter studies of narratives by William Carlos Williams, Rigoberta Menchú, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, José Martí, Mark Knopfler (former lead singer of Dire Straits) and Gabriel García Márquez. These texts are rarely if ever read together because of their discrete provenances in time and place, yet their juxtaposition reveals how the disjunctions and ruptures that took place on the eastern and western shores of the Atlantic upon the arrival of Europeans became insinuated as recurring and resistant absences in narratives ostensibly contextualized by the Conquest.The book concludes by proposing that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the great American novel.After Specters of Conquest: Indigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures, America will never seem the same.

Comparative literature --- Literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism --- America --- Western Hemisphere --- Hemisphere, Western --- New World --- Earth (Planet) --- Civilization --- In literature. --- Civilization. --- Literature History and criticism

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Transculturality is a new way of viewing culture that sees cultures not as separate islands that are easily differentiated from one another, but as connected and interacting webs of meaning and practice. The Americas in particular offer many examples of transcultural identities that do not fit easily into one national or ethnic mold: Chicanos, Franco-Ontarians, Creoles, and second and third generation immigrants. From Quebec to Argentina, this volume explores these identities which create themselves in a space between sameness and difference.

Ethnicity --- Group identity --- America --- Civilization --- Ethnic identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- ethnicity --- multiculturalism --- cultural identity

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Intentamos esboçar, palidamente embora, ante o olhar de futuros historiadores, os traços atuais mais expressivos das sub-raças sertanejas do Brasil ... . [trecho retirado da nota preliminar do livro].

History --- Brazil --- Latin America --- HIstory. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Canudos (Euclides da Cunha, Brazil) --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- HISTORY