Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" by Maxwell Woods

“… This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds together a regional community through the practice of reproducing shared narratives of the urban meaning of a uniting city. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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De la ventriloquie au trauma by Marc Amfreville

“…This article aims at showing that imitation, far from being only a theme that pervades American literature from the start (Charles Brockden Brown, Ambrose Bierce) to its most recent developments (DeLillo), constitutes a defining structure. …”
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The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“… In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. …”
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"One Hundred False Starts" : l’espace fitzgéraldien ou la quête d’un ailleurs impossible by Pascal Bardet

“…Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s entire works deal with a major theme in American literature: man’s alienation from his environment. …”
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Após a nacionalidade: história do romance e produção romanesca no Brasil e na América Latina by Pedro Dolabela Chagas

“…We then suggest the exhaustion of that critical gesture, given the recent changes in the representation of local identity in Brazilian and Latin-American literature. We argue that such changes demand a new historiographical approach: as a strategy to reveal historical patterns that are still invisible, we defend an analytical focus on the singularities of individual works. …”
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American Studies in Norway: Historic Ideals and Contemporary Challenges by Cassandra Falke

“…The article closes with three generalizations about the landscape of American studies teaching in Norway today related to America as a political imaginary, internationalization within American studies as a discipline, and the presumed relationship between American literature and lived experience of the culture. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…Contrasting Cuban and North American conceptual linkages between « Africanity » and « racial identity », and surveying the emergent North American literature on « culinary Pan-Africanism » in light of theories of cultural property, I suggest that it is time we transcended the terms in which the debate between so-called « creolists » and « New Revisionists » has been framed.…”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, the story of Scrooge’s life-changing encounter with the Christmas Spirits has been adapted, revised, condensed, retold, and modernized on screen more than any other work of English or American literature. Why is cinema so attracted to this particular piece? …”
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“This Land Is Your Land”: A Note on America as a Nation of “Varied Carols” by Heinrich Detering

“… Modern American literature starts with the sound of voices singing: “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear”. …”
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AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL GIRO BOTÁNICO EN LOS ESTUDIOS CULTURALES1 by Alejandro Ponce de León

“…Este artículo traza los contornos del reciente giro hacia la vida vegetal dentro de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a partir de una lectura de tres libros: el volumen editado por Monica Gagliano, John Ryan y Patrıcia Vieira The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature; el libro de Theresa Miller Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil; y The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature de Lesley Wylie. El escrito presenta algunas de las contribuciones y posibilidades que hacen los trabajos dentro del giro botánico a las conversaciones de los estudios culturales, y luego señala cómo la especificidad latinoamericana ofrece y demanda novedosas estrategias metodológicas y conceptuales con las cuales abordar las enredadas relaciones entre los humanos y las plantas en el contexto regional. …”
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Caliban’s Gait: The Postcolonial “Progress” of American Exploratory Poetics in William Carlos Williams’ The Great American Novel by Zachary Finch

“…Lawrence en 1923 dans l’introduction de ses Studies in Classic American Literature, l’année où William Carlos Williams, de son côté, publiait The Great American Novel, anti-roman iconoclaste qui rejetait la notion de “progression” narrative en faveur de ce que Michel de Certeau aurait appelé “la tactique de la pratique”. …”
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BROOM: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924) : une revue d’avant-garde américaine by Ambre Gauthier

“…The magazine, which was one of the American little reviews that gave the genre new life, purported to be a tool for defending contemporary American literature and art that nevertheless gave allocated substantial space to Europe and its innovations. …”
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Serialised Translations in the Estonian Newspapers in the Beginning of the 20th Century (1900‒1940) by Aile Möldre

“…In the independent Republic of Estonia, in the 1920s and 1930s, Anglo-American literature occupied the leading position in accordance with the general cultural orientation. …”
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Léo Malet ou le roman noir américain made in France by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…During the German Occupation of France, the publisher Georges Ventillard, taking advantage of the craze for noir fiction and the banning of Anglo-American literature in France, launched the “Minuit” series. …”
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Information needs research in Russia and Lithuania, 1965-2003 by Elena Maceviciute

“…Comparison with the Western (English language or Anglo-American) literature was carried out.<br /> <strong><br><b>Results.…”
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Improving sonographic visualisation of the appendix in a regional referral hospital by Shyr Chui, Carly Phinney, Karina Hansen, Deanna Danskin

“…Median baseline data, at our hospital imaging department, revealed a rate of combined normal and abnormal appendix visualisation of 34.5% which is below the reported visualisation rates in the North American literature and well below the rates reported in the global literature. …”
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Améliorer l’enseignement dans le supérieur by Iryna Hontarenko, Oksana Kovalenko

“…The present study has explored the challenges and opportunities of effective lecturing in higher education, drawing on the insights from the British and American literature review and the empirical data collected from Ukrainian lecturers and students. …”
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