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Hemispheric American Studies: Preliminary Thoughts on Research and Pedagogical Challenges
Author(s) -
Levander Caroline
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00532.x
Subject(s) - interdependence , work (physics) , psychology , curriculum , right hemisphere , western hemisphere , history , sociology , pedagogy , social science , cognitive psychology , ethnology , mechanical engineering , engineering
Over the past two decades, important work in many academic disciplines has increasingly begun to break down many of the regional and national boundaries that have long characterized the study of the Americas. Future research and curriculum on the hemisphere will, no doubt, continue to emphasize comparative and cross regional studies. What happens to U.S. and Americas literary and cultural studies if we recognize the asymmetry and interdependency of nation‐state development throughout the hemisphere? This is the question the following article addresses.