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The Goals of American Cultural Plans
Even though several American cities have released cultural plans and invested funding and energy in this process, very little empirical research has...
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US Central American relational identity formation in Maya Chinchilla’s and Leticia Hernández-Linares’s poetics
Taking up interconnected concerns about the hierarchies that exist within Latinidad and what I call Latina/o/x relational identity formation, this...
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Queering the Kitchen: Cultural Friction at the Italian American Table
This contribution examines the autobiographical work of contemporary Italian American writers Giovanna Capone, Mary Beth Caschetta, and Mary...
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Towards a Global and Decentralised History of Film Cultures: Networks of Exchange among Ibero-American Film Clubs (1924–1958)
This chapter contributes to a decentralised global film history that pays attention to units of analysis that go beyond the national framework in...
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An Overview of the History of American Imperialism and the American Security State
This chapter describes how imperialism has been commensurate with America’s perceived special sense of purpose in the world since this country’s...
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The Central American Transnational Imaginary: Defining the Transnational Gendered Contours of Central American Immigrant Experiences
In this article, I explore recent cultural production about and by Central Americans in the United States, including the independent film Sin nombre,...
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Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy in Postcolonial Contexts
This chapter problematizes how postcolonial Africa understands the role of its cultural industries and cultural policy against the backdrop of...
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American Studies after Postmodernism
This book explores the major challenges that the long-standing and diversely debated demise of postmodernism signifies for American literature, art,...
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Latin American Digital Poetics
Latin American Digital Poeticsseeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams...
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Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies
This chapter examines the use of iconography as a mode of analysis, as developed and refined by art historians such as Erwin Panofsky, by early...
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Situating the Digital in Latin American Technopoetics
In this chapter, we explore definitions and typologies of digital poetry, drawing from studies on the topic from Anglophone and Latin American...
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British and American Musical Theatre Exchanges in the West End (1924-1970) The “Americanization” of Drury Lane
This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury...
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Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology
Oral history has emerged as an interventional methodology allowing researchers to document evidence of historical events that have often left small...
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Cultural Linguistics in Dialogue
The untimely departure of Farzad Sharifian marks a potential turning point for Cultural Linguistics (CL). Will the framework be able to develop and...
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Cultural History for Comics Studies: Reinterpreting the Eagle and “Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future”
This chapter “ Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies ” returns to Ernst Gombrich’s...
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The Fall and Rise of Exile’s Return: Malcolm Cowley and the Cultural Politics of Revision
In 1934, the American literary critic and historian Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) published Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas. The book discussed the...
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The Conservation of Cham Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
This chapter provides an overview of the conservation of Cham cultural heritage in Vietnam and its significance to the country’s rich cultural...
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Conserving Cultural Landscapes
A growing interest in cultural landscapeCultural landscapes theory and practice reflects a wider twenty-first century shift towards ecological...
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Cultural Mercosur: A Regional Vision of Cultural Heritage as Soft Power
In this article we will study the work being done by the international agency MERCOSUR in the field of cultural heritage of the associated states....
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Revision, Change, and the Native American Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine(s)
This chapter discusses the revisions and expansions that Louise Erdrich made, first in 1993 and again in 2009, to her highly successful debut novel...