The book is a commemorative publication for Josef Raab and this collection of essays presents recent lines of research and results in the field of InterAmerican Studies. The book also opens new perspectives for future research. The collection of essays is interdisciplinary and brings together historical, film, literary and cultural studies approaches to the Americas. Renowned scholars and young researchers make this book a cross-disciplinary work highly suitable for scholars and students. TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 WILFRIED RAUSSERT Neither Same nor Separate: Hemispheric Horizons of American Studies ................ 11 JOSEF RAAB The Power of Perceptions: Theodore Roosevelt, Latin America, and the European Powers, 1898–1909 ..................................................................... 33 STEFAN RINKE Breaking the Vicious Circle of Gang-Related Violence: Central American Minors and the Current U.S. Refugee Regime ............................ 51 MARIETTA MESSMER From Color to Whiteness: Thinking the Transfiguration of the Political Body in the Americas from Evo Morales and Barack Obama to Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump ................................................................................................... 75 OLAF KALTMEIER Cecilia Absatz’s Los años pares or the Challenge of Reevaluating Autochthonous Latinamericanism ........................................................................... 91 LUZ ANGÉLICA KIRSCHNER Reclaiming Voices and Bodies of the Nobodies: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ...................................... 107 ISABEL CALDEIRA Saint or Scoundrel? Remembering and Representing Padre Martínez in Early (Auto)Biography and Fiction ..................................................................... 121 ASTRID HAAS Of Love Songs, Open Wounds, and (Almost) Everything In Between: Borderlands and InterAmerican Literature ............................................................... 133 SASKIA HERTLEIN Political Organization at the Grass-Roots Level in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People ........................................................................ 145 FRANCISCO A. LOMELÍ The Politics of Remembering in Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel .................. 155 GABRIELE PISARZ-RAMIREZ Silence and Voice in Villanueva’s Scene from the Movie GIANT ........................... 167 JULIANA FILLIES TESTA MUÑOZ Piedra Rodante: The Memory of the Musical Consumption of a Generation of Mexican Youth in the Seventies .......................................................................... 185 YOLANDA MINERVA CAMPOS GARCÍA Sonic America(s): Politics of Recognition and Recent Trends in Music Documentary ............................................................................................. 205 WILFRIED RAUSSERT Noir Aesthetics, Institutional Racism, and Social Critique: Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway and the Denial of Legal Rights to First Americans ...................... 225 CHRIS LIPPARD Border Crossings, Memory, and Performativity in Juan Carlos Zaldívar’s 90 Miles (2001) ............................................................... 241 ANNETTE L. RUKWIED Latinos on U.S. Primetime Entertainment Television .............................................. 259 CLARA E. RODRÍGUEZ Prickly Politics in Borderlands Art: Aesthetic Activism and the Barbed Wire Motif in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Artwork ................ 279 MARÍA HERRERA-SOBEK Contributors ............................................................................................................. 305
