LEADER 04072nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910811848903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0188-9 010 $a1-4237-9184-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401201889 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462449 035 $a(EBL)556921 035 $a(OCoLC)714568446 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173470 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12038222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173470 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164853 035 $a(PQKB)10884652 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556921 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556921 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380554 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401201889 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462449 100 $a20050728d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHow far is America from here? $eselected proceedings of the first World Congress of the International American Studies Association, 22-24 May 2003 /$fedited by Theo D'haen ... [et al.] 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (637 p.) 225 1 $aTextext ;$v47 300 $aCongress held in Leiden, the Netherlands. 311 $a90-420-1756-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable of Contents; American Studies from an International American Studies Perspective; International, Transnational, Hemispheric America; American Social, Ethical, and Religious Mentalities; Comparative Perspectives, Literary Counterpoints; American Identities; Space and Place in American Studies; Notes on Contributors 330 $aHow Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that "America" be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of "America": which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by "far"-distance, discursive formations, ideals and ideologies, foundational narratives, political conformities, aberrations, inconsistencies? Where is here-positionality, geographies, spatial compressions, hegemonic and subaltern loci, disciplinary formations, reflexes and reflexivities? These questions are addressed with regard to the multiple Americas within the USA and the bi-continental western hemisphere, as part of and beyond inter-American cultural relations, ethnicities across the national and cultural plurality of America, mutual constructions of North and South, borderlands, issues of migration and diaspora. The larger contexts of globalization and America's role within this process are also discussed, alongside issues of geographical exploration, capital expansion, integration, transculturalism, transnationalism and global flows, pre-Columbian and contemporary Native American cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, the environmental crisis, U.S. literature in relation to Canadian or Latin American literature, religious conflict both within the Americas and between the Americas and the rest of the world, with such issues as American Zionism, American exceptionalism, and the discourse of/on terror and terrorism. 410 0$aText (Rodopi (Firm)) ;$v47. 606 $aComparative literature$vCongresses 607 $aAmerica$xCivilization$vCongresses 607 $aUnited States$xStudy and teaching$vCongresses 615 0$aComparative literature 676 $a973 701 $aHaen$b Theo d'$0863278 712 02$aInternational American Studies Association.$bWorld Congress$d(1st :$f2003 :$eLeiden, Netherlands) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811848903321 996 $aHow far is America from here$94202909 997 $aUNINA