Cruzar las Américas: Perspectivas hemisféricas en lenguajes, literaturas y culturas visuales

by Yvette Sánchez (editor), Valeria Wagner (Editor)

This collection of essays participates in the revision of the imaginaries of the Americas that has been carried out for several decades. We are witnessing a depolarization of economic, political and cultural history, manifested in a marked tendency to 'cross' imaginary and institutional borders between North and South, languages, histories, ethnic groups, disciplines. At the same time, we see in the Americas and in the world, the reinforcement and growth of visible and invisible borders. In this paradoxical context, the 'crossings' fulfill the important function of deconstructing the antagonisms and bipolarity that structure the visions of the Americas so that we can think of them as a transcultural network structure. The 'crossing', which we propose as a figure and limit to our shared approach, it aims to highlight the dynamics that are both contradictory and promising in inter-American relations. The crossing metaphor evokes the transfer process between poles, chiasmic rather
than dichotomous inversions; directs the gaze and attention towards the new socio-cultural configurations and practices that are being developed despite and against borders. With it we want to make visible the trap of harmonization and idealization of difference that haunts every researcher in the Americas.

169 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016