Hemispheric Encounters

Contents: Markus Heide/Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: Introduction: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective - Wil M. Verhoeven: Trouble on the Western Frontier: Sedition and Secessionism in the Ohio Valley, 1783-1806 - Barbara Buchenau: Empire - Nation - Urbanity: Renewing Scripts and Frames in the Old Northwest - Markus Heide: The Hemispheric Frame and Travel Writing of the Early United States: Zebulon Pike, Henry Marie Brackenridge, and William Duane - Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez: From "Southern Brethren" to "Treacherous Cowards": Temporal Narratives of Latin America in Early Nineteenth-Century U.S. America - Astrid Haas: Mexican Travelers and the "Texas Question", 1821-1836 - Hannah Spahn: Erasing the Stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture? The Haitian Revolution and the Question of Character - Stefan L. Brandt: The Algerine Dilemma: (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in Early U.S. Barbary Narratives - Alma Villanueva: The Muslim Slave Auto/biographical Tradition: Disrupting the Master-Slave Dialectic in the Americas - Astrid M. Fellner: "Subaltern Knowledges in the Borderlands:" Drawing the Sexual Boundaries of the Early United States.

Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez is Professor of American Studies and Minority Studies at Leipzig University (Germany). Her research interests and fields of publication include inter-American Studies, race and ethnicity (especially Latino/a Studies), transculturation, early American Studies, and 19th century popular literature.
Markus Heide is Senior Lecturer of American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) at Uppsala University (Sweden). He has published monographs and essays on different issues in U.S.-Latino/a Studies and 19th century American literature, with a particular interest in inter-American relations.