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2017-01-14T22:43:10Z
RIAS:INTRO
Presidential Address
Mariani, Giorgio
Giorgio Mariani's Presidential Address at the 6th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Szczecin, Poland, followed by the introduction of the central themes of the present issue.
University of Silesia Press
2015-05-01
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 8 No 1 (2015): Oceanamerica(s)—RIAS Vol. 8, Spring–Summer (1/2015)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 8 Nr 1 (2015): Oceanamerica(s)—RIAS Vol. 8, Spring–Summer (1/2015)
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/3389/2747
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2017-01-14T22:14:49Z
RIAS:INTRO
Introducción
Ancarani, Marta
Nuestra Tierra es extraordinaria. El cielo y los mares que la arropan nos hacen precipitar suspiros de complacencia; quien pueda detener su mirada sobre ellos, podrá percibir las extravagantes figuras y los sutiles colores que los engalanan. La fascinación que nos producen se manifiesta de distintas maneras. Puede ser expresada en poemas que imprimen en nuestra mente y en nuestro corazon la inmensidad de la bóveda celesta, o el vaivén y el misterio del mar, tal como lo describiera con magistrales trazos el poeta Ramón López Velarde. Así nos lo hace saborear Luis Juan Solís Carrillo en su relevante análisis ‘Elementos marinos en Ramón López Velarde: un poeta que no conoció el mar’.Las nuevas geografías que descubrimos asombran, deslumbran. Provocan. Abren expectativas inconmensurables, como las que irrumpieron en la mente del primer Almirante que llegó al Nuevo continente, y en la de quienes, en el tiempo, recrearon con nuevas palabras aquellas ilusiones y visiones. Todavía hoy, se las retoman con esmeradas observaciones que seducen nuestro intelecto, como las que Fabián Mossello apunta en ‘La novela histórica hispanoamericana y la reescritura de la historia. Navegantes, historia y escrituras en Vigilia del Almirante de Augusto Roa Bastos’. Los océanos que bañan el perfil de nuestros continentes se imponen como impulso soberbio que influye en la vida de nuestro planeta. No debería, pues, sorprendernos que la unión de las fuerzas colosales del Pacífico y del Atlántico por la mediación del Canal de Panamá, provocara grandes cambios en el desarrollo político y económico en las más variadas latitudes. Y son, precisamente, las decisiones de los políticos y los economistas las que afectan el desarrollo de nuestras vidas y de nuestro trabajo en la tierra, en el aire y en el mismo mar. Alfredo Salazar López, en su ‘Precarización del trabajo marítimo: Caso de México (1980–2006)’, y Carlos Gabriel Argüelles Arredondo, en ‘El Canal de Panamá en el desarrollo marítimo de las Américas’, revelan detalladas investigaciones sobre algunas de las consecuencias de la construcción de tan magna obra de arquitectura. Marta AncaraniCecylia TatojAlba Escriu Roca
University of Silesia Press
2015-11-15
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 8 No 2 (2015): Entre Océanos, Umbral de Nuevos Mundos—RIAS Vol. 8, Fall–Winter (2/2015)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 8 Nr 2 (2015): Entre Océanos, Umbral de Nuevos Mundos—RIAS Vol. 8, Fall–Winter (2/2015)
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/3984
2017-01-14T23:00:05Z
RIAS:INTRO
Introduction
Woźniakowska, Agnieszka
Łakowicz-Dopiera, Anna
For three summer days in August 2013 the International American Studies Association managed to attract scholars of all continents to travel to a Polish harbor town—Szczecin to contribute to the discussions on America(s) separated from other continents by two oceans. The title 'Oceans Apart' turned out to be an intellectual provocation which proved that the oceanic separateness was illusory as the discussions oscillated around the topics which were recognized and resonant in distant parts of the world. As the organizers intended, the speakers searched for new words to give meanings to old texts. The works of authors such as Herman Melville, Pearl Buck, Jack London, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle inspired scholars to ask questions pertaining to the complexity of human nature and served as referential points in debates on other more modern texts. The old problems of exclusion, prejudice or stereotyping found new exemplification both in literature and in geopolitical observations. The oceanic metaphors and associations triggered a wide range of topics and multiple ways of interpreting them, thus proving that the oceans connect rather than divide people.The present issue addresses topics related to the notion of the ocean in two ways: those which concern issues outside of the world of literature and those which refer to specific literary texts.The first paper selected for this issue has been written by Regina Schober and is entitled ‘The World Wide Sea—Oceanic Metaphors, Concepts of Knowledge, and Transnational America in the Information Age’. Professor Schober received for this article the 2013 Emory Elliot Award, the award given to an outstanding paper submitted for an IASA conference. The second text, ‘History as an ocean’ written by Alicja Bemben, investigates the question of what history is and it discusses the relation between history and literature. It is followed by Jolanta Szymkowska’s text ‘From the American Wild West to Bojszowy: Józef Kłyk’s Westerns as Social Rituals’ in which the author examines the extent to which the American film genre influenced the western production of Silesian amateur director, and discusses the ritual purposes of Józef Kłyk’s productions. The three articles are followed by papers in which the ocean metaphor is directly related to literary texts. Thus Justyna Fruzińska discusses the process of maturation of young men in relation to three fictional characters: Jack London’s Humphrey Van Weyden in The Sea Wolf, Herman Melville’s Captain Amasa Delano from ‘Benito Cereno’ and eponymous Billy Budd, and their experiences on the sea. Pilar Martínez Benedí, in ‘Revolving the Vortex; or, Working through Trauma at Sea’ also addresses Hermann Melville’s work, Moby Dick, by attempting to examine relationship between a sea-vortex and the experience of working through trauma. Claudia Ioana Doroholschi’s text is a comparative study of Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat and S.T. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Jacek Mydla’s ‘United by the Ocean? The Romantic Conan Doyle and the Transatlantic Sherlock Holmes’ focuses on how the metaphor of the ocean/water functions in Doyle’s story “The Five Orange Pips.” Valeria Gennero’s text ‘Pearl S. Buck and the Forgotten Holocaust of the Two-Ocean War’ discusses the notions of ‘national identity’ and ‘gendered violence’ in the context of Buck’s novel Dragon Seed. In the last article Hitomi Nabae examines the representation of Creole culture in Lafcadio Hearn’s writings.Anna Łakowicz-Dopiera and Agnieszka Woźniakowska
University of Silesia Press
2014-05-15
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 7 No 1 (2014): Oceans Apart: In Search of New Wor(l)ds—RIAS Vol. 7, Spring–Summer (1/2014)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 7 Nr 1 (2014): Oceans Apart: In Search of New Wor(l)ds—RIAS Vol. 7, Spring–Summer (1/2014)
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/3984/3162
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/4028
2017-01-14T22:59:02Z
RIAS:INTRO
Introduction
Caputa, Sonia
Gonerko-Frej, Anna
The 6th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, ‘Oceans Apart: In Search of New Wor(l)ds’, in August 2013 attracted scholars from all over the world to Szczecin, a Polish harbor city with a long multicultural, multinational, and multilingual history. Offering their multidisciplinary perspectives, the participants answered the call of Paweł Jędrzejko (the initiator and organizer) for debate on ‘the transoceanic dynamics of history’. This publication is a collection of papers presented at the conference; the first volume centered on literary topics, and the present one takes a broader, cultural angle, with articles from the world of politics, literature, education, and sociology.Read more
University of Silesia Press
2014-11-15
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 7 No 2 (2014): Wor(l)ds Apart: Navigating Differences—RIAS Vol. 7, Fall–Winter (2/2014)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 7 Nr 2 (2014): Wor(l)ds Apart: Navigating Differences—RIAS Vol. 7, Fall–Winter (2/2014)
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/4028/3176
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/4974
2017-01-14T22:13:58Z
RIAS:INTRO
Presidential Address
Mariani, Giorgio
Presidential Address delivered to the IASA General Assembly on August 17, 2015, Seoul, South Korea.
University of Silesia Press
2016-11-15
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 9 No 2 (2016): Constellating Americas—RIAS Vol. 9, Fall–Winter (2/2016)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 9 Nr 2 (2016): Constellating Americas—RIAS Vol. 9, Fall–Winter (2/2016)
1991-2773
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/4974/3312
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/5401
2017-05-19T21:03:56Z
RIAS:INTRO
International American Studies and the question of World literature. An Introduction
Mariani, Giorgio
Since its inception, International American Studies (IAS) had to define itself against the larger backdrop of global or world studies. However, as Paul Giles notes in his contribution to this special issue of RIAS marking the 10th anniversary of the journal and devoted to “International American Studies and the Question of World literature,” “World Literature in its current institutional manifestation is a much more recent phenomenon” than IAS, and may have “accumulated academic prestige more rapidly and securely than International American Studies has so far managed.” Whatever their different temporal and institutional trajectories, however, both IAS and World literature may be seen as efforts to come to terms with the momentous historical, political, social, and technological changes of the past few decades. Put simply, both can be considered attempts to fashion new epistemological tools better suited to making sense of a globalized world, so that, no matter how (relatively?) different their objects of study might be, a set of theoretical concerns would appear to be shared by both fields. Both students of IAS and World Literature, for example, need to venture beyond the traditional categories of the nation and of national cultures, by coming to terms with the social, historical, and linguistic complexities that such a move entails. Both have to do so in a way that “opens” one’s field and yet preserves its raison d’être, especially at a time when the humanities are under attack and the defense of academic positions and credentials—all calls for “interdisciplinarity” notwithstanding—is of paramount importance. Both need to rethink the parameters of their disciplinary specializations, that is, without pulling the institutional rugs from under their feet—a precarious balancing act which, in the age of the corporate university, with its rage for classifying, evaluating, and ranking, is far from easy to perform.
University of Silesia Press
2017-06-30
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 10 No 1 (2017): International American Studies and World Literatures (10th Anniversary Issue)—RIAS Vol. 10, Spring–Summer (1/2017)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 10 Nr 1 (2017): International American Studies and World Literatures (10th Anniversary Issue)—RIAS Vol. 10, Spring–Summer (1/2017)
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/5401/3664
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/5417
2017-12-17T22:05:24Z
RIAS:INTRO
Sicily, Not Italy
Salmeri, Claudio
Claudio SalmeriFaculty of PhilologyUniversity of Silesia in KatowiceSicily, Not ItalyAbstract: Since the American continent became a part of the European imagination, it has always been seen to represent freedom. Especially after 1776, when the American democratic “experiment” giving rise to the United States proved durable, America became a source of social and political inspiration to generations of Europeans and non-Europeans alike. Unsurprisingly, also in the Italian context, the catalog of ways in which American values have been “translated into Italian” and adapted to Italy’s cultural space seems to be ever-growing. Yet, even though the cultural transfer dates back to Christopher Columbus, it is especially since the outbreak of World War II that Italy has been markedly influenced by intellectual and material values generated in the US. At some point, the fascination with the US soared to such a level that, incredibly as it may sound, one of the most iconic provinces of Italy would begin to imagine itself as the forty-ninth state of the US long before Alaska and Hawaii gained their present-day status: in Sicily, the American fascination seems never to abate.
University of Silesia Press
2017-11-30
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 10 No 2 (2017): Trans/Lazio—RIAS Vol. 10, Fall–Winter (2/2017)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 10 Nr 2 (2017): Trans/Lazio—RIAS Vol. 10, Fall–Winter (2/2017)
1991-2773
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/5417/4418
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/6381
2018-08-21T13:53:12Z
RIAS:INTRO
Introduction
Dominguez, Virginia R.
Virginia R. DominguezUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUSAWalls, Material and Rhetorical: Past, Present, and FutureAbstract: An introduction to this special issue of RIAS on walls, in light of President Trump’s proposal to build a tall and beautiful wall along the US-Mexico border and the multiple concerns it raises, this essay, like this issue of RIAS as a whole, provides comparative background on walls built at different times in the past and in different locations around the world, exploring their intended efficacy and questionable results, their transformation over time into sites of tourism, uncertain peace, and unstable truces. Raising questions about both rhetoric and materiality, it suggests that the matter does not just concern Trump’s views and policies but, rather, much more general views in the US toward Mexico and Mexicans. The essay raises the specters of both racism and imperialism in the rhetoric and proposals coming from the White House, and it seeks to use contributions from scholars in Italy, Israel, Mexico, the U.S., Hungary, South Korea, Denmark, and Canada to put it all in broader perspective.Keywords: Trump’s proposed wall, introduction, rhetoric, polls, comparisons
University of Silesia Press
2018-06-30
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 11 No 1 (2018): Walls, Material and Rhetorical: Past, Present, and Future—RIAS Vol. 11, Spring–Summer (1/2018)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2018): Walls, Material and Rhetorical: Past, Present, and Future—RIAS Vol. 11, Spring–Summer (1/2018)
1991-2773
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/6381/5352
oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/7408
2019-01-21T20:09:26Z
RIAS:INTRO
Presidential Address for IASA 8th World Congress, Laredo TX, 12-21 July 2017
Broncano Rodríguez, Manuel
manuel broncano rodríguezTexas A&M International UniversityUSAPresidential Address for IASA 8th World Congress Laredo TX, 12-21 July 2017Laredo is located in the vicinity of the Rio Grande/Bravo, in many senses the epitome of the border, of the frontier, of the “limen” in its etymological sense of “threshold,” “doorway,” or “limit.” The general theme of our reunion was “Marginalia: The Borders of the Border,” and the contributions the IASA members made addressed this theme from multiple perspectives, thus leading to most enriching discussions about one of the most written about topics in the scholarship of the last few decades. Such a topic has rekindled new interest, especially in the light of the recent political transformations in many regions of the globe, which are leading to revived feelings of essentialist nationalism and its atavistic fears of the other, call it the immigrant, the dissenter or, if you want, the barbarian. It is happening in Turkey, it is happening in Poland, it is happening in Britain, it is happening in the US. In this context, borders and walls, both physical and ideological, are being erected once again. Marginalia, in turn, is a Latin term that in its origins referred to the inscriptions that monks and other amanuensis made on the empty space surrounding the body of text inscribed on a parchment. Romance languages are largely the product of marginal inscriptions on Latin manuscripts. Thus, the first manifestations of the Spanish language are found in the glosses that monks scribbled on the margins of those manuscripts to clarify and comment on words whose meaning was already obscure for the medieval reader, and those annotations were made in the new romance language, which was nothing but macaronic Latin. By extension, marginalia refers to those writings that do not belong in the canonical body of works of a culture or civilization, and is close in meaning to apocryphal. Furthermore, it can be understood as referring to the interstices that exist between two or more cultures, nations, or religions. In our usage of the term, marginalia refers to those areas of the world that are populated by displaced or uprooted individuals, limbic spaces in which mere survival may become an illegal activity. The present address seeks to explicate the essence of the basic concepts underlying—and driving—the theme of the Congress.
University of Silesia Press
2018-12-30
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 11 No 2 (2018): The Borders of the Border—RIAS Vol. 11, Fall–Winter (2/2018)
Review of International American Studies; Tom 11 Nr 2 (2018): The Borders of the Border—RIAS Vol. 11, Fall–Winter (2/2018)
1991-2773
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/7408/5691
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2021-07-12T22:50:32Z
RIAS:INTRO
Indigenous Social Movements in the Americas
Kruk-Buchowska, Zuzanna
Davis, Jenny L.
The present text serves as an introduction to RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer № 1 /2019, dedicated to Indigenous social movements in the Americas. It outlines the major areas of interest of the Contributors, explaining ways in which the issue explores selected cases of Indigenous resistance to oppressive forms of environmental, socio-economic, linguistic, and cultural colonialism. Looking at both multi-tribal and single-tribal contexts, the authors look at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the novels of Lakota/Anishinaabe writer Frances Washburn, the Two-Spirit movement in the U.S., and the Indigenous food sovereignty movement in the U.S. and Peru as sites of creative forms of decolonizing resistance, and analyze the material, discursive, and cultural strategies employed by the Indigenous activists, writers, and farmers involved.
University of Silesia Press
2019-09-08
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 12 No 1 (2019): Indigenous Social Movements in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer (1/2019); 7-10
Review of International American Studies; Tom 12 Nr 1 (2019): Indigenous Social Movements in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer (1/2019); 7-10
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Copyright (c) 2019 Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska, Jenny L. Davis
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2021-07-12T22:49:57Z
RIAS:INTRO
1968 as a Symbol
Kozák, Kryštof
The year 1968 keeps capturing collective imagination on both sides of the Atlantic, as it serves as a convenient shortcut for social developments and upheavals throughout the 1960s. Even though in every country the events of 1968 unfolded differently, dramatic street protests demanding profound social changes define the dominant memory of this year on global scale. Violent suppression of street protesters by security forces form the dominant images of that year all around the globe, even if targets of the popular discontent were quite diverse. The year 1968 can also be seen as the pinnacle of idealistic efforts for progressive social change, which was replaced by normalization efforts induced by various methods in different contexts throughout the 1970s. As such, it is connected with feelings of nostalgia and lost opportunities especially for those who consider themselves to be progressives. But to what extent were the events of 1968 truly seminal? What were their lasting legacies?
University of Silesia Press
2019-12-23
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 12 No 2 (2019): 1968: Transnational Legacies—RIAS Vol. 12, Fall–Winter (2/2019); 25-26
Review of International American Studies; Tom 12 Nr 2 (2019): 1968: Transnational Legacies—RIAS Vol. 12, Fall–Winter (2/2019); 25-26
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10.31261/rias.2019.12.2
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/8008/6286
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2021-07-12T22:49:24Z
RIAS:INTRO
Captive Minds. Norms, Normativities and the Forms of Tragic Protest in Literature and Cultural Practice
Poks, Małgorzata
As a foundation and product of grand narratives, norms apply to any and every aspect of individual, communal, and social life. They regulate our behaviors, determine directions in the evolution of arts and philosophies, condition intra- and cross cultural understanding, organize hierarchies. Yet – when transformed into laws – norms become appropriated by dominant discourses and become “truths.” Those in control of language always construe them as “universal” and, as such, “transparent.” The usefulness of norms stems from the fact that they facilitate our orientation in the world. In the long run, however, they are bound to block our imaginative access to alternative ways of living and thinking about reality, thus enslaving our minds in a construction of reality believed to be natural. In a world so determined, dissenting perspectives and pluralities of views threaten to disrupt norms and normativities, along with the order (patriarchal, racist, sexist, ableist, speciesist, etc.) build into them. Benefactors of a normative worldview and average individuals busily trying to fit in police the perimeters of the accepted, disciplining nonconformists, rebels, and nonnormative individualists of every stripe. “Assent — and you are sane,” quipped Emily Dickinson in her well-known poem, “Demur — you’re straightway dangerous — And handled with a Chain —” (209). Notorious for their inimical attitude to repressive majorities, artists, philosophers, academics, and other “marginal” persons have always challenged deified norms. Opening up liberatory perspectives, they have tried to escape mental captivities and imagine the world otherwise: as a place where difference is cherished and where justice reigns. Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, imagines an alternative reality whose inhabitants, Heterotopians, constantly suspend commonly held beliefs in order to examine their validity. Passive perception, argues Tokarczuk, “has moral significance. It allows evil to take root” (43). Without a periodical suspension of belief in truths so deeply naturalized that they look like Truth Itself, we become perpetrators of the evil glossed over by narratives whose veracity we take for granted.
University of Silesia Press
2020-08-16
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 13 No 1 (2020): Captive Minds—RIAS Vol. 13, Spring–Summer (1/2020); 19-26
Review of International American Studies; Tom 13 Nr 1 (2020): Captive Minds—RIAS Vol. 13, Spring–Summer (1/2020); 19-26
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10.31261/rias.2020.13.1
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2021-07-12T22:49:12Z
RIAS:INTRO
Cosmopolitanism, Translocality, Astronoetics: A Multi-Local Vantage Point
Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela
Kang, Manpreet Kaur
The world in which we live is crisscrossed by multiple flows of people, information, non-human life, travel circuits and goods. At least since the Sixteenth Century, the Americas have received and generated new social, cultural and product trends. As we see through the case studies presented here, modern literature and dance, the industrialization of food and the race to space cannot be historicized without considering the role the Americas, and particularly the United States, have played in all of them. We also see, at the same time, how these flows of thought, art, science and products emerged from sources outside the Americas to then take root in and beyond the United States. The authors in this special volume are devising conceptual tools to analyze this multiplicity across continents and also at the level of particular nations and localities. Concepts such as cosmopolitanism, translocality and astronoetics are brought to shed light on these complex crossings, giving us new ways to look at the intricacy of these distance-crossing flows. India, perhaps surprisingly, emerges as an important cultural interlocutor, beginning with the idealized, imagined versions of Indian spirituality that fueled the romanticism of the New England Transcendentalists, to the importance of Indian dance pioneers in the world stage during the first part of the twentieth century and the current importance of India as a player in the race to space.
University of Silesia Press
2020-12-31
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 13 No 2 (2020): One World: The Americas Everywhere—RIAS Vol. 13, Fall–Winter (2/2020); 29-38
Review of International American Studies; Tom 13 Nr 2 (2020): One World: The Americas Everywhere—RIAS Vol. 13, Fall–Winter (2/2020); 29-38
1991-2773
10.31261/rias.2020.13.2
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2021-10-12T18:53:29Z
RIAS:INTRO
“Down Beside where the Waters Flow": Reclaiming Rivers for American Studies (Introduction)
Della Marca, Manlio
Lübken, Uwe
Over the past three decades, rivers have become a fascinating and popular subject of scholarly interest, not only in the field of environmental history, where river histories have developed into a distinct subgenre, but also in the emerging field of environmental humanities. In this scholarship, rivers have often been reconceptualized as socio-natural sites where human and non-human actors interact with the natural world, generating complex legacies, path dependencies, and feedback loops. Furthermore, rivers have been described as hybrid “organic machines,” whose energy has been utilized by humans in many different ways, including the harvesting of both hydropower and salmon. Indeed, as several environmental historians have noted, in many regions of the world, watercourses have been transformed by technology to such an extent that they increasingly resemble enviro-technical assemblages rather than natural waterways. Rivers have also been discussed through the lens of “eco-biography,” a term coined by Mark Cioc in his influential monograph on the Rhine River, a book informed by “the notion that a river is a biological entity—that it has a ‘life’ and ‘a personality’ and therefore a ‘biography’.” Quite surprisingly, despite this “river turn” (to use Evenden's phrase), rivers have played a marginal role in recent American Studies scholarship. To address this gap, this issue of RIAS brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and continents to analyze a wide variety of river experiences, histories, and representations across the American hemisphere and beyond. Hence the title of this volume, Rivers of the Americas, should be seen as both an allusion to the Rivers of America book series (a popular series of sixty-five volumes, each on a particular US river, published between 1937 and 1974) and as a reminder of the still untapped potential of hemispheric, transnational, and comparative modes of critical engagement with rivers in American Studies.
University of Silesia Press
2021-09-30
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 14 No 1 (2021): Rivers of the Americas—RIAS Vol. 14, Spring–Summer (1/2021); 13-24
Review of International American Studies; Tom 14 Nr 1 (2021): Rivers of the Americas—RIAS Vol. 14, Spring–Summer (1/2021); 13-24
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/12822
2021-12-20T17:42:21Z
RIAS:INTRO
Americar Dreams (An Introduction)
Mazurek, Marcin
Battin, Justin Michael
Even though Baudrillard’s catchy piece of advice as for the most effective method of exploring America’s landscapes (both real and imaginary) comes from his postmodernist travelogue limited to its titular country, it is probably difficult for anyone interested in contemporary car cultures not to extend Baudrillard’s praise of the driving experience and perceive it in cognitive rather than transportation terms, not necessarily bounded by national borders. True, American driving culture and all its related contexts—its remarkable history, its contribution to social mobility, its spectacular cars, its mythologies, the list goes on and on—is not only the oldest one historically, but—given its ties with American life-styles, politics, social stratification and the overall consumerist mindset—also the most extreme one. From Henry Ford’s Model T storming millions of American households at the beginning of the 20th century to Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster shot into space in the second decade of the following one, cars have shaped American horizons, both private and collective, like no other machine. This introductory text presents the concept of the present issue of RIAS as well as the concepts underlying its feature texts.
University of Silesia Press
2021-12-19
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 14 No 2 (2021): Car Culture(s): Machines, Roads, Mythologies—RIAS Vol. 14, Fall–Winter (2/2021); 14-24
Review of International American Studies; Tom 14 Nr 2 (2021): Car Culture(s): Machines, Roads, Mythologies—RIAS Vol. 14, Fall–Winter (2/2021); 14-24
1991-2773
10.31261/rias.2021.14.2
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/12822/9958
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/13762
2022-10-24T09:01:38Z
RIAS:INTRO
Introduction
Geidel, Molly
Schnepf, J. D.
The recent intensification of gendered surveillance in the United States underscores how surveillance technologies continue to abet criminalization domestically while enabling the US to renew orientalist narratives of rescue with respect to its military interventions abroad. Building on the 2015 Feminist Surveillance Studies volume edited by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet, this issue seeks to make a number of new interventions in the study of surveillance and gender. First, it calls for the incorporation of scholarship that approaches the US-led war on terrorism through the lens of gender and sexuality to develop a more refined understanding of how surveillance practices and contemporary imperial imaginaries overlap and inform one another. Second, it reconsiders the frame of carceral feminism by unpacking some of the assumptions around “carcerality” and “feminism.” Finally, it builds on the premise that existing black feminist scholarship has for some time theorized surveillance’s relation to gendered oppression. To do so, it considers how critical framings of hypervisibility and invisibility help us make sense of the racialized, gendered forms of surveillance deployed across the decades: from the mid-twentieth-century national security state to the contemporary neoliberal postfeminist regimes of the twenty-first century.
University of Silesia Press
2022-06-15
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 15 No 1 (2022): Gender and Surveillance—RIAS Vol. 15, Spring–Summer (1/2022); 17-29
Review of International American Studies; Tom 15 Nr 1 (2022): Gender and Surveillance—RIAS Vol. 15, Spring–Summer (1/2022); 17-29
1991-2773
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/13762/10524
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/14917
2023-01-31T19:41:39Z
RIAS:INTRO
Latin America in Focus
Duarte, German A.
Battin, Justin Michael
A key distinction of Review of International American Studies is its commitment to the notion that the Americas are a hemispheric and transoceanic communicating vessel. This angle provides a unique path to de-center the American Studies discipline, which has become tantamount to studies of the United States. This angle also expands the discipline beyond its traditional literary roots, inviting critical investigations into other forms of communicative media, such as cinema, television, and photography. Informed and inspired by this conceptualization of the discipline, this issue of RIAS is composed of several pieces specifically focused on Latin America, each of which employs a unique interpretive approach of visual media to, collectively and comprehensively, articulate how this multilayered cultural landscape manifests in our contemporary social imaginary.
The arbitrary delineation of the globe through the notion of ‘the western world’ has, seemingly, transformed the Latin American continent a no man’s land. In its vast extension, this part of the planet seems condemned to exist between two worlds. Despite being part of the western hemisphere, and despite its deep Catholic tradition, this vast region is surprisingly excluded as a member of ‘the west.’ Yet, it was neither placed in ‘the east,’ nor on the other side of the wall, when the world was politically, culturally, and economically divided by the Iron Curtain. This land’s perpetual homelessness might be due to its consistent political instability, to the weakness of some of its democracies, or even its colonial past, one that bears no relation to the Commonwealth of Britain, a belonging that placed Australia in the topos of the West. These reasons, in addition to others, have fostered an understanding of Latin America as being generally alien to the ‘western world.’
Being a no man’s land, deprived of a hemisphere, and broadly unintelligible by the general imaginary of the western cultural industry, this continent, populated by almost 700-million people, was traditionally subjected to stereotypes formulated during the twentieth century, and that remained unchangeable in this new millennium. Latin America has become, for the global imaginary, a place of military juntas, a vast lowland displaying desertic features, a tropical yet savage jungle, a poverty-stricken favela, and a land fought over by romantic revolutionarios.
Certainly, the question remains if the obsolete model ‘western world,’ the also obsolete ‘third world,’ or ‘periphery,’ and even the in vogue ‘global south’ would be able to embrace and reproduce a closer image of this heterogenous and vast continent, and by extension if this generalization is able to denote a set of multiple series of social diversities. We doubt it. This doubt encouraged us to gather diverse scholars from diverse academic disciplines to contribute to this issue of Review of International American Studies. And this doubt, which was at a first glance only intuitive, brough us to avoid the topic of identity and representation as the main theme for this journal’s issue. Our initial plan was to structure the series of contributions on some problematics relating to the photographic medium, a medium that is widely regarded as exerting an objective representation of reality, yet also places the pictorial representation on an undetermined semiotic field. The choice of photography was also a choice of intuition that we quickly abandoned since, in our twenty-first century mediascape, photography represents only one element of a fast and global visual stream that shapes and refashions the collective imaginary of the Latin American continent. Thus, we expanded our scope to include other media such as films, paintings, and any visual-oriented human expression that could provide insights on the complex and chaotic mechanism that formulates and constructs the imaginary on the turbulent entity that we call society.
University of Silesia Press
2022-12-31
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"Introductory note"
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 15 No 2 (2022): Visual Stories: Latin America in Focus—RIAS Vol. 15, Fall–Winter (2/2022); 19-23
Review of International American Studies; Tom 15 Nr 2 (2022): Visual Stories: Latin America in Focus—RIAS Vol. 15, Fall–Winter (2/2022); 19-23
1991-2773
10.31261/rias.2022.15.2
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/14917/11425
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/15683
2023-11-21T16:39:52Z
RIAS:INTRO
Contestations Over Sacred Spaces in North America
Kýrová, Lucie
Racine, Nathaniel R.
The article serves as an introduction to the present issue, offering the reader an insight into the Editors' overall concept, as well as an overview of the contents of the issue's "Features" section.
University of Silesia Press
2023-08-28
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 16 No 1 (2023): Sacred Spaces in North America—RIAS Vol. 16, Spring–Summer (1/2023); 15-30
Review of International American Studies; Tom 16 Nr 1 (2023): Sacred Spaces in North America—RIAS Vol. 16, Spring–Summer (1/2023); 15-30
1991-2773
10.31261/rias.2023.16.1
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/15683/12159
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oai:ojs.www.journals.us.edu.pl:article/16741
2024-01-31T21:22:52Z
RIAS:INTRO
Life Matters: The Human Condition in the Age of Pandemics (An Introduction)
Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela
Kang, Manpreet Kaur
The world has recently experienced the ravages of the COVID-19 epidemic and new, terrible wars. The pandemic and the wars now being waged show us how fragile human life is on our planet. The facts that the COVID-19 virus came originally from one or more animals that are part of the human food chain, and that the viruses themselves are forms of life very different from plants and animals, have altered our perception of our place in the world. Wars fought in this changed biological context have also shown how precarious the balance of power is in what we have come to see as a global humanity. Scholars in the fields of Humanities and Cultural Studies have risen to the occasion by focusing on the cultural effects of biological and war-time violence-related catastrophes. In this issue of RIAS focusing on the Americas and their influence on the world, we look at the implications of pandemics and wars, and human reactions to similar threats in the past, such as the pandemic of the Spanish flu which decimated soldiers during World War I. And once again, literature comes to our rescue in the time of heightened angst, showing us paths of the mind already present in American literature that may nudge us in a better direction. Existential homelessness, Buddhism, and meditation, also appear here as “life matters,” and that in the double sense: they are both matters of life and signals that life, and especially human life, must matter.
University of Silesia Press
2023-12-29
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"Introductory note"
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Review of International American Studies; Vol 16 No 2 (2023): Life Matters: The Human Condition in the Age of Pandemics—RIAS Vol. 16, Fall–Winter (2/2023); 17-28
Review of International American Studies; Tom 16 Nr 2 (2023): Life Matters: The Human Condition in the Age of Pandemics—RIAS Vol. 16, Fall–Winter (2/2023); 17-28
1991-2773
10.31261/rias.2023.16.2
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/16741/12948
Copyright (c) 2023 Gabriela Vargas Cetina, Manpreet Kaur Kang and Review of International American Studies
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