Explorations on Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation

With the pressures of globalization, internationalization of production, migration, and the transmission of information, former concepts of identity and cultural configuration are increasingly challenged. In Explorations on Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation, editors and contributors Raúl A. Galoppe and Richard Weiner examine the shift in subjectivity, borders, and demarcation within Iberian and Latin American studies.

This comprehensive volume examines these issues in terms of race, economy, gender, and marginality. By using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from literature, literary theory, and history this collection offers a timely discourse for the entire academic community. In contrast to similar studies this collection goes beyond the geographic aspects of borders and demarcation. These articles not only examine Latin American places and people; but, also the Latin American identity in Europe and the Mediterranean, and the experiences of other groups such as Asian Latin Americans and Indians. This collection of nine articles from both established scholars and new academic voices serves as a well-knit mosaic of perspectives that reflect the intermingling state of subjectivity, borders, and demarcation; and in turn, postmodern academia.

Raúl A. Galoppe is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He published Género y confusión en el teatro de Tirso de Molina, is a contributor to and editor of numerous texts focused on Latin American studies, and speaks frequently at leading academic conferences.

Richard Weiner is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In addition to this collection of articles, Professor Weiner published Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico and has contributed to various journals and anthologies. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Irvine.