The final chapter assesses his posthumous role in the
Americanist controversies.
Crews acknowledges the need for accommodating a broader view of American culture but scores this New
Americanist criticism for "its self-righteousness, its tendency to conceive of American history only as a highlight film of outrages, its impatience with artistic purposes other than |redefining the social order,' and its choice of critical principles according to the partisan cause at hand." He is particularly shrewd at exposing the double-think of radical critics who "interrogate" canonical and noncanonical writers by different standards.
Expanded and rewritten from presentations to a July 2012 international
Americanist convention in Vienna, 11 studies explore indigenous perceptions of leadership in lowland and highland South America, changing styles of leadership in lowland South America, and Amazonian indigenous actors in state politics.
While K12/Connections-style virtual academies may be a bad fit for homeschoolers, there are, nonetheless, some online homeschool curricula that not only provide solid academics, but which also reinforce the Christian and
Americanist values a majority of homeschool parents say they want for their kids.
Rosemary Radford Ruether's call for a new Barmen Declaration, one that would reject "
Americanist Christianity" just as the original denounced the "German Christianity" of the 1930s, is provocative and timely.
She combines three general approaches in her analysis: examination of the historical development of the Latin
Americanist discourse (the sum of writings that have attempted to define Latin American culture, identity, and reality, often by way of reference to Europe); biographical accounts of Carpentier and Cortazar as situated historically in relation to the Latin
Americanist discourse and in relation to how they formulated their poetics in relation to this discourse; and exegetical analysis of their writings that addresses how they implement this Latin
Americanist project of poetics in literary practice.
John Perna, Columbia, S.C.: The
Americanist Co., 2006, 32 pages, booklet.
In the context of increasing use of an "
Americanist" messianic nationalism by the Bush administration to justify its "war against terrorism," the question needs to be posed, particularly for U.S.
Excess baggage; a modern theory and the conscious amnesia of Latin
Americanist thought.