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Video – Entrevista a Walter Prodencio Magne Veliz (Embajador Boliviano en Alemania)
By Walter Prodencio Magne Veliz
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research
La nacionalización del indÃgena en tiempos de multiculturalismo neoliberal
By Guillaume Boccara and Patricia Ayala
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research
Inventing Iroquoia? Migrating Tropes of Similarity and Heritage in Francophone Narratives of Colonial Possession
By Barbara Buchenau
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research
Haunted by Spain: The Past and Identities in English and French America
By Jonathan Hart
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research
From David Walker to President Obama: Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses
By Elizabeth J. West
American Studies Journal
More than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, in a society that still others blackness, we continue to hold to the mythical humanizing power of literacy. In our own time this has been poignantly evinced in the public reception of the current President of the United States, Barack Obama. He has been internationally hailed for his written and oral eloquence, and many Americans expected that Obama’s evident intellectual prowess would reverse prevailing stereotypes of black inferiority. Obama’s rhetorical success is rooted in the longstanding literary practice of invoking the mythical founding fathers to validate text and subject. In this regard, David Walker’s Appeal (1829) represents the emergence of a long tradition of black voices invoking America’s most sacred patriarchs and their rhetoric of Americanness.
- The American South: From Civil Rights Struggle to Civil Rights Tourism
- Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second “Solid South”
- Detecting the (In)visible Woman: BarbaraNeely and Her Domestic Sleuth
- From Visual Pleasure to Traumatic Duration: The Ethics of Time in Scott Hicks�(tm)s Snow Falling on Cedars
- Hylozoism: Drew Hayden Taylor's Girl Who Loved Her Horses and William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.'s The Council
- Greeting the Everyday: Barbara Kingsolver's Ecocritical Praxis and Sustainable Reinhabitation in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- The Everyday "Business" of Performing Men: Transactions of Desires and Identities in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Speed-the-Plow
- Libratory Paradigm of Women with Disabilities: Life Writing of Nancy Mairs and Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer
- Everyday life in the memory: From I Remember by Joe Brainard to Je me souviens by Georges Perec
- Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Russian-German Imaginary Families
- ''What Town's this Boy?'': English civic politics, Virginia's urban debate, and Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter
- Plunging into the Atlantic: The oceanic order of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick