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Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges
from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of
transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American,
African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and
discussions contained in this volume's 35 essays by leading
scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of
the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish
and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies
seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the
traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically
engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial
relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies.
Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries
without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to
incorporate within this new framework.
Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges
from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of
transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American,
African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and
discussions contained in this volume's 35 essays by leading
scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of
the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish
and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies
seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the
traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically
engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial
relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies.
Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries
without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to
incorporate within this new framework.
The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on
March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the
imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening.
In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal
in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is
part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical
process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth
century and the first half of the twentieth century. Enjuto
Rangel's study investigates the virtually unexplored map of modern
ruins in modern poetry. She interprets modern poetry on ruins as a
critique of both capitalist definitions of progress and the
devastating effects of modern warfare. Furthermore, she argues that
the representation of ruins provokes a "historical awakening" that
empowers the text, and the reader, with political and historical
agency.
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