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1. One of the first books to bring a comparative study of
contemporary borders between South Asia and Latin America. 2.
Chapters are written by well-known scholars from South Asia and
Latin America. 3. Immigration and cross-border migrations being the
debates of the day, this book will be of interest to departments of
South Asian and Latin American studies along with cultural studies,
literary studies, border studies, arts and aesthetics, visual
studies, sociology, comparative politics, international relations,
and peace and conflict resolution studies.
How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the
second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories
obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural
production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general
in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition
1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national
or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point
to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while
keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and
intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced
in formidable ways.
Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of
scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by
the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and
Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from
research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what
it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID.
Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching—along
with the devastating physical and emotional tolls on individuals
and families—the disruption of COVID-19 in academia has given
motivated scholars an opportunity (or necessitated them) to
reconsider how they interact with and inspire students, conduct
research, and continue collaborative projects. Addressing a broad
range of factors, from anti-Asian racism to pedagogies of
resilience and escapism, digital pen pals to international
performance, the essays are connected by a flexible, creative
approach to community engagement as a core aspect of research and
teaching. Timely and urgent, but with long-term implications and
applications, Scholars in COVID Times offers a heterogeneous vision
of scholarly and pedagogical innovation in an era of contestation
and crisis.
The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of
disciplines-history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies;
literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology,
anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies-to focus on how
scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more
meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place
in the world. Designed to help model new paths for publicly-engaged
humanities, the contributions to this groundbreaking volume are
guided by one overarching question: How can scholars practice a
more human scholarship? Recognizing that colleges and universities
must be more responsive to the needs of both their students and
surrounding communities, the essays in The Scholar as Human carve
out new space for public scholars and practitioners whose rigor and
passion are equally important forces in their work. Challenging the
approach to research and teaching of earlier generations that
valorized disinterestedness, each contributor here demonstrates how
they have energized their own scholarship and its reception among
their students and in the wider world through a deeper engagement
with their own life stories and humanity. Contributors: Anna Sims
Bartel, Debra A. Castillo, Ella Diaz, Carolina Osorio Gil,
Christine Henseler, Caitlin Kane, Shawn McDaniel, A. T. Miller,
Scott J. Peters, Bobby J. Smith II, Jose Ragas, Riche Richardson,
Gerald Torres, Matthew Velasco, Sara Warner Thanks to generous
funding from Cornell University, the ebook editions of this book
are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open
(cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of
scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by
the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and
Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from
research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what
it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID.
Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching—along
with the devastating physical and emotional tolls on individuals
and families—the disruption of COVID-19 in academia has given
motivated scholars an opportunity (or necessitated them) to
reconsider how they interact with and inspire students, conduct
research, and continue collaborative projects. Addressing a broad
range of factors, from anti-Asian racism to pedagogies of
resilience and escapism, digital pen pals to international
performance, the essays are connected by a flexible, creative
approach to community engagement as a core aspect of research and
teaching. Timely and urgent, but with long-term implications and
applications, Scholars in COVID Times offers a heterogeneous vision
of scholarly and pedagogical innovation in an era of contestation
and crisis.
This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst
humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both
offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work
inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon
their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their
dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted
their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork
legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the
work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are
already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those
who are seeking ways to undertake it.
It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated
by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the
work of women writers from both sides of the border, Debra A.
Castillo and Maria-Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba open border studies to
a truly transnational analysis while bringing questions of gender
to the fore.
Border Women rethinks border theory by emphasizing women writers
whose work -- in Spanish, English, or a mixture of the two
languages -- calls into question accepted notions of border
identities. These writers include those who are already well
recognized internationally (Helena Maria Viramontes, Sheila and
Sandra Ortiz Taylor, and Maria Novato); those who have become part
of the Chicano canon (Norma Cantu, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and
Demetria Martinez); along with some of the lesser-known, yet most
exciting, women's voices from the Mexican border (Rosario
Sanmiguel, Rosina Conde, and Regina Swain).
This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst
humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both
offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work
inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon
their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their
dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted
their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork
legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the
work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are
already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those
who are seeking ways to undertake it.
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy,
literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to
conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this
volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a
temporalized march of progress or takeover of state power, but as a
movement for local control that upholds standards of material
conditions for human dignity. Essays on identity, equality, and
ethics propose models of transcultural and intercultural relations
that replace center/periphery or world-systems approaches; they
impel us to focus on building dialogic relationships rather than on
accommodating universalized paradigms. Ultimately suggesting a
reconstruction of the world in terms of the interests of one of the
peripheral regions of the world, Latin American Perspectives on
Globalization argues with cogency and urgency that no one within
contemporary globalization debates can afford to ignore the Latin
American philosophical tradition.
What would American literature look like in language other than
English, and what would Latin American literature look life if we
understood the United States to be a Latin American country and
took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A.
Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the contributions
of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanish. Beginning with the
anonymously published 1826 novel "Jicotencal and ending with
fiction published at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book
details both the characters' and authors' struggles with how to
define an American self. Writers from Cuba. Puerto Rico, and Mexico
are featured prominently, alongside a sampling of those writers
from other Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile).
Castillo concludes by offering some thoughts on U.S. curricular
practice.
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