Publications of the Research Group

These twenty-four essays - written in English and in Spanish - take a fresh look at cultural identities in the Americas from a transnational, inter-American perspective. They explore a variety of topics related to the four main sections of the book, "Politics of Divergence and Integration in the Americas," "The Role of Media and Media Industries in the Formation of (Trans-)National Identities," "Literary Negotiations of Identity," and "Cultural Diversity, Hybridity, New Identities."

  Estos veinticuatro ensayos en inglés y espańol ofrecen acercamientos innovativos a identidades culturales en las Américas desde una perspectiva transnacional e interamericana. Las contribuciones analizan una amplia gama de temas relacionados con las cuatro secciones del libro: "Políticas de divergencia y de integración en las Américas," "Medios e industrias mediáticas en la formación de identidades (trans)nacionales," "Negociaciones literarias de la identidad" y "Diversidad cultural, hibridación, y nuevas identidades."

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• E Pluribus Unum? - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on National and Transnational Identities in the Americas (Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab)
• De una política cultural a una cultura politizada: La República Bolivariana de Venezuela y su revolución cultural en el sector audiovisual (Libia Villazana)
• National, Cultural, and Linguistic (In)Securities: Perceptions of the United States in Some Bolivian Films (Chris Lippard)

The twenty-two essays in this collection examine a wide scope of past and present cultural interrelations and interdependences in the Americas. Exploring mutual gazes, separations, and linkages, this volume highlights regional, national, and transnational contacts in the New World; it raises awareness of the contrasts that separate American cultures; and it examines the confluences of New World issues, traditions, and practices. Contributing to the emerging field of Inter-American Studies, this collection increases our theoretical under¬standing of cultural hybridity and demonstrates that cultural hybridity is by no means a recent phenomenon in the Americas.
 
Taken from the volume:
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Introduction: Cultural Hybridity in the Americas (Josef Raab and Martin Butler)