Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives

Processes of Spatialization in the Americas INTERAMERICANA INTER-AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY AND CULTURE HISTORIA LITERARIA INTERAMERICANA Y SUS CONTEXTOS CULTURALES HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE ET CULTURE INTERAMÉRICAINES Editors: Marietta Messmer (University of Groningen / editor-in-chief), Barbara Buchenau (University of Duisburg-Essen), Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México) and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (University of Leipzig) Reviewers and Advisors: Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland), Robert Dion (University of Québec at Montreal), Yolanda Minerva Campos García (Universidad de Guadalajara), Manfred Engelbert (University of California at Los Angeles), Earl Fitz (Vanderbilt University at Nashville), Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser University at Burnaby/B.C.), Daniel Göske (University of Kassel), Markus Heide (Uppsala University), Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University), Efraín Kristal (University of California at Los Angeles), Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (Stanford University), Carla Mulford (Pennsylvania State University), Denis St. Jacques (Laval University at Québec) and Jeanette den Toonder (University of Groningen) VOLUME 13 Notes on the quality assurance and peer review of this publication: Prior to publication, the quality of the works published in this series is reviewed by external referees appointed by the editorship. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger (eds.) Processes of Spatialization in the Americas Configurations and Narratives Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographicdata is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Gratefully acknowledging financial support by DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg Cover Image: © Hannes Warnecke-Berger ISSN 1618-419X E-ISBN 978-3-631-77207-2 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-77208-9 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-77209-6 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b14987 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger (eds.), 2018 Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien www.peterlang.com Contents Notes on Contributors .......................................................................................... 7 Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives ....... 9 Producing Space: The Americas between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity Peter Birle Regionalism and Regionalization in Latin America: Drivers and Obstacles ......................................................................................................... 31 Gesa Mackenthun Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Transcultural Inscriptions of the Land .... 53 Steffen Wöll Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London’s “Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire” ................................................................................... 75 Thomas Plötze Regional Homogeneity by Force or by Conviction? Central American Regionalism in a Long-Term Perspective ............................................................ 99 Configuring Space: Borders, Frontiers, and the Dialectics of Inclusion and Exclusion Josef Raab Contestation, Hybridization, Criminalization: US-Mexican Borderland Vistas ....................................................................................................................... 125 Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez Florida as a Hemispheric Region ........................................................................ 149 Megan Maruschke Bordering through the Lens of Slavery and Abolition in the United States .................................................................................................... 175 6 Contents Antje Dietze Americanization of Show Business? Shifting Territories of Theatrical Entertainment in North America at the Turn of the 20th Century ................ 193 Transgressing Space: Globalization, Mobility, and Bordercrossings Hannes Warnecke-Berger Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space ............................................................................. 219 Sebastian Huhn and Christoph A. Rass The Post–World War II Resettlement of European Refugees in Venezuela: A Twofold Translation of Migration ............................................... 243 List of Figures and Tables ..................................................................................... 269 Notes on Contributors Peter Birle, political scientist, heads the research department of the Ibero- Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin and teaches at the FU Berlin. His research interests are Latin American foreign policies in comparative perspective, Regional Cooperation and Integration in Latin America, and knowledge pro- duction in and about Latin America. Antje Dietze is senior researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and member of the Institute of Cultural Studies at Leipzig University. Her current research focuses on the history of entertainment industries in a transatlantic perspective. Sebastian Huhn is senior researcher at the Chair for Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück. He is a member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University. Her current research deals with nineteenth-century imperial travel and archaeology and the scientific constructions of American antiquity. Megan Maruschke is senior researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and member of the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on special economic zones during the second half of the 20th century and on the spatial transformation of the Americas at the time of decolonization and the French revolution. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez is Professor of American Studies and Minority Studies at Leipzig University. Her areas of research include Mexican American literature and culture, early American hemispheric studies, and the study of the US South in a circum-Caribbean context. Currently she is working within the Collaborative Research Centre “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” at Leipzig University on a project focusing on “Spatial Fictions: (Re) Imaginations of Nationality in the Southern and Western Peripheries of 19th Century America”. 8 Notes on Contributors Thomas Plötze, political scientist, is junior researcher at the Chair of International Relations, Leipzig University. His research touches on the nexus of securitization and regional security cooperation since 1980s in Central America. Josef Raab is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He served as Founding President of the International Association of Inter-American Studies from 2009 through 2018. Most recently he co-edited Spaces—Communities—Discourses: Charting Identity and Belonging in the Americas (2016). Christoph A. Rass is Professor for Modern History and Historical Migration Research and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. Hannes Warnecke-Berger is senior researcher at University of Kassel. His research interests are on political economy, development, violence, and migration. His empirical research focuses on Central America, West Africa and Southeast Asia. Steffen Wöll is research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” at Leipzig University. He is a PhD candidate working on “Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Nineteenth-Century US Literature.” Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives Now, these parts of the earth have been more extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci (as will be set forth in what follows). Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why anyone should justly object to calling this part Amerige, i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability. (Waldseemüller 70) At the beginning of the 16th century, the cosmographer Martin Waldseemüller and his colleague Matthias Ringmann both worked on their Cosmographiae Introductio. While they had never been to America, they had read extensively on the “discovery” of the New World, including Vespucci’s Mundus Novus, which was a bestseller at that time. By 1503, Vespucci had published a description of his voyage of 1501, and by 1529, it had already been distributed in 60 editions and translated into almost every European language (Hirsch 540). Based on Vespucci’s and other travel reports, Waldseemüller created his popular world map where for the first time in history the newly discovered territories

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