Short description:

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literatures, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

Long description:

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts:

• Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments.
• Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property.

This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.

Table of Contents:

General Introduction to the Routledge Handbook to Culture and Media of the Americas  Part I Literature and Music  1. Introduction ? Literature and Music in the Americas  2. African-descendant Literatures  3. Borders  4. Children's Literature  5. Cosmopolitanism  6. Crónicas and New Journalism  7. Dance  8. Foundational Discourses  9. Graphic Novels  10. Indigenous Literatures  11. Life Writing  12. Magical Realism and The Fantastic  13. Migration Literature  14. Modernism and Postmodernisms  15. Plantation Literature  16. Popular Music Flows  17. Protest Music  18. Public Intellectuals  19. Silencing  20. Slave Narratives  21. Trauma Literature  22. Travel Writing  23. Utopias  Part II Media and Visual Cultures  24. Introduction: Inter-American Studies on Media and Communication  25. Cinema  26. Comics  27. Cultural Industries  28. Digital Culture  29. Freedom of Expression and Censorship  30. Indigenous Media Production  31. Intellectual Property  32. Journalism  33. Latino Media  34. Media Consumption  35. Media Flows  36. Media Participation  37. Muralism  38. Photography  39. Public Media  40. Radio  41. Social Media  42. Telecommunications  43. Television  44. Video Games  45. Visual Cultures