Research in Ethnic American Literature
The research series “Critical History of Ethnic American Literature. An Intercultural Approach” analyzes the interactions between the different literatures and cultures of the United States from a comparative perspective.
“One can be inside without being inside, there is an inside in the inside, and outside in the inside and this goes on infinitely.”
—Derrida & Cixous (2006: 5)
Our point of departure is the questioning of the traditional vision of culture as univocal and static, established around a center that provides identity and stability. It is our understanding, as the research group has explored in volumes resulting from previous research projects, that it is the cultural exchanges, the interstitial spaces between cultures as well as their sites of interaction that convey dynamism and creativity to the different cultural traditions. The premise, then, is that the study of the standard tunes, the appropriations, negotiations, and the recurrent patterns (or their absence) can be more productive than looking at the center, at the canonical, foundational or “authentic” spaces that have been the traditional objective of cultural studies.
Where to find us:
Pl. Campus Universitario, s/n, 47011 Valladolid
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
Universidad de Valladolid (FyL-UVa)