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Robert T. Tally, Jr.'s 2023 book The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies, a collection of previously published essays, offers a remarkably coherent picture of post-Americanist critical agency with theoretical sophistication, political savvy, and humanist good humor. Spoiler alert: the bad guys are those who with self-satisfaction embrace what can be generalized under the banner of "post-theory." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract In this paper, I analyse Brazilian foreign policy with special attention to change from Americanism to Globalism in the early 1960s. This article argues that such change happened amid a crisis of ontological security. Traditional diplomats were supporters of Americanism, whereas some intellectuals and politicians came up with Neutralism, an alternative foreign policy discourse. They upheld different narratives of Brazil’s identity, whether as a Western country or a bridge between developing nations and the West. I will argue that diplomats did solve such critical situation and regain control over Brazilian foreign policy’s formulation and implementation. They did so by deactivating parts of Neutralism and carving out Globalism, which would become the new hegemonic foreign policy discourse.

In this paper, I analyse Brazilian foreign policy with special attention to change from Americanism to Globalism in the early 1960s. This article argues that such change happened amid a crisis of ontological security. Traditional diplomats were supporters of Americanism, whereas some intellectuals and politicians came up with Neutralism, an alternative foreign policy discourse. They upheld different narratives of Brazil's identity, whether as a Western country or a bridge between developing nations and the West. I will argue that diplomats did solve such critical situation and regain control over Brazilian foreign policy's formulation and implementation. They did so by deactivating parts of Neutralism and carving out Globalism, which would become the new hegemonic foreign policy discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Some advances of a research project that will end in December 2022 are presented. It is analyzing how in the republican years prior to the coup d'état of July 18, 1936 there was a deployment of scientific-technical knowledge that had various results. In higher and secondary education, a quantitative leap and qualitative development were made, thanks to greater support from republican governments for science and education and a broader interest of society in scientific-technical problems. As the socialization of knowledge increased, new audiences for science emerged, among which a significant sector of the urban female population can be detected. This communication presents some project results related to two issues. On the one hand, with the teaching innovations made in the field of secondary education and in the training schools of primary school teachers based on the promotion of active and experimental teaching. On the other hand, with the intensification of the process of internationalization of the Spanish scientific system in those years due to the coming to Spain of foreign scientists to collaborate with its educational and scientific institutions and the ability of the Spanish State during the republican years to host a set of congresses related to various scientific disciplines ranging from medicine to Americanist studies, going through chemistry or entomology.

This article revisits the history of French archaeological missions in Brazil through a critical examination of institutional, academic and scientific contexts, aiming to deepen the understanding of French influence in the history of Brazilian archeology. It highlights scientific and diplomatic aspects that gave rise to extended research programs in Brazil, the empiricism of French Americanism, the focus on the origins of the « American man », and the preference for the study of ancient contexts, transporting to the tropics approaches associated with « prehistoric science », which was issued from excavations of sites in the Dordogne, but is practiced today in a global perspective.

The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). The paper discloses the civilizational features and stages of the evolution of the elite. The author reveals social, psychological, mental and other characteristics given by the thinker to the main domestic types of managers such as: a Russian European, a “Moscow man” and a Soviet manager. The study shows his positive assessment of the management culture of the nineteenth century. The article considers the thinker’s views on the processes of transformation and primitiveness of management personnel of the early 20th century. The paper analyses the portrait of the Soviet manager given by G.P. Fedotov. The author shows the utilitarianism and Americanism of his social aspirations, which give rise to socialist bourgeoisness. The study reveals the significance of the analysis conducted by the thinker.

This article aims to explore how American architecture was presented throughout the pages of two main architectural journals published in West Germany in the very first years after the end of World War II. The selected journals, Baukunst und Werkformand Baumeister, are rather independent magazines with opposite positions – the first is extremely oriented towards modernity and the latter is deeply conservative - and by no means can be considered as part of the cultural Cold War program. In spite of that, studying these magazines reveals how, in this particular period, it was impossible to avoid knowing, measuring and confronting the transatlantic world.

The hovering Bando Hotel in central Seoul, built by a Japanese industrial mogul in 1938, enjoyed notoriety as a key landmark in the capital cityscape for thirtysome years. The Bando also occupied political and cultural centerstage, visually signifying Japan's colonial modernity during its foundational years, followed by representing a political nerve center for both the American military occupation (1945--1948) in southern Korea and the postwar Syngman Rhee regime throughout the 1950s. This study examines the Bando Hotel as an ensconced space of political power and Cold War internationalism in Seoul, under Rhee's postwar translation of the hotel from its Japanese foundation into Americanism from 1954 to 1960. Reflecting Rhee's desires to be intimately integrated into the Americanled Free Asia, the Bando Hotel embodied American modernity and Cold War cosmopolitanism. This spatial and symbolic transformation, however, was more superficial than actual, much like Rhee's precarious and fraught support from the United States; despite his attempt to control and project this exclusive space of power and Americanism, the emblematic significance of this spatial facade also diffused following Rhee's fall from power. The spatial history of the Bando encapsulated the interpenetrating desires and failures of his regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the representations of “Americanism” in the Argentinian political intellectual debate during the Paraguayan War. In contrast to the popular revisionist approach, we find that the “American” ideal appears in a weak way during the conflict. The idea of “Americanism” was more related to the contemporary war between Chile and Spain. The view of contemporary actors shows that the Paraguayan War reveals more the weaknesses than the strengths of “Americanist” dicourse.

In 1954 the Alava's house of cards Heraclio Fournier put on sale an Baraja histórica de Descubridores y Colonizadores de América with illustrations by Ricardo Summers "Serny" and a bilingual explanatory text by Luis Ortiz Muñoz. The choice of this theme for a playful task was justified as an element of propaganda in the cultural context of the Franco's regime, which at the time sought the recovery of its former international prominence in neo-imperial code. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyses the presence of information related with America in the six editions of the Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua castellana published between 1817 and 1852 (DRAE 1817, 1822, 1832, 1837, 1843, 1852). The objective is focused on investigating the presence and evolution of this kind of information and, consequently, on discerning its treatment in the history of the Academia lexicography just before the opening of the work to the American collaboration in the second half of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Spanish-American War of 1898 produced a wave of Anti-Americanism in all Spain, very closely associated with a heated Spanishist rhetoric. It was also expressed in the Basque Country, but at the same time triggered the discovery by Basque nationalism of the United States as a “friendly nation” (an interpretation present in Basque nationalism throughout all its history). Both Spanish and Basque nationalisms, that existed then in this territory, reacted differently to the outbreak of the war and built opposite ideas of the symbolic meaning of the United States: a traitorous republic or a freeing referent. The aim of this article is to explain, through the Basque press of the period, divergent points of view, as well as the patriotic rhetoric and the popular mobilizations –expression of informal sociability– against the United States raised by the war.

This article highlights the institutional, professional and clinical dynamics surrounding the implementation, in the mid-1970s, of an American-style sex therapy in the capital of the canton of Vaud, in French-speaking Switzerland. We suggest that we analyze these dynamics from the perspective of a critical history of Americanism as an “engine of discovery” of modern sexology. We situate the birth of a clinic for sexual disorders within the wider history of sexology and psychotherapy in order to discuss the invention of an American sexology made in Switzerland. We also demonstrate what the so-called new American methods in Lausanne, and more generally out of America, owed to this Americanism: the stamp of scientificity and modernity, but also their very Americanness.

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Bonpland's relashionship with Americas leads us to reflect about the necessary conditions for the transfer of a science and the ideology it bears. In favour of the independence of the Rio de la Plata, imbued with a political culture that puts forward the necessity of a strong state thus enabling a nation to be stable and to shine forth, Bonpland faces the instability that characterizes the political construction of this region. By following his path, we witness the union of a naturalist leading a project based on the universalist pattern of the European science with the Rio de la Plata elites who want to implement a specific policy based on the use of natural resources for internal development. We are also witnessing a transformation of a traveler into a migrant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the cultural magazines edited by Enrique Espinoza during the transition period from Babel to Babel between 1928 and 1939. By analyzing letters, the book Trinchera and the magazines La Vida Literaria, Trapalanda. Un Colectivo Porteño, Onda Corta and sech, the intellectual networks developed in Chile and Argentina by the editor are examined, as well as his political and cultural objectives. The hypothesis holds that during this period there was a redefinition of his role as manager focused on two central activities: first, in the dissemination and publication of literature unknown to the Latin American environment such as Jewish, German, Russian and Arab writers; and second, in the creation of cultural magazines for the development of political-literaty debates on Americanism, Antifascism and Antinationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article investigates the elements that gave birth to the promotion and enhancement of the originality of Latin America and that defined the identity of the literate Creole in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. It focuses on the study of El Redactor Americano edited by Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez to explain how the periodic press was transformed into a space for discussion of opinions that acquired a political character. In other words, it examines how the press was transformed into a political actor whose arguments were reflected in public debates and in the creation of innovative political debates. This work argues that public opinion is not only the discussion of European concepts in America, but it involves the collective elaboration of reflections made by actors on both sides of the Atlantic. In short, we wonder how El Redactor Americano shows us the discursive auto configuration of the Creole literate in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada in the beginning of the Republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I discuss the texts written by the Uruguayan thinker José Enrique Rodó, published in the National Journal of Literature and Social Sciences - Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales (1895-1897), an end-of-century Uruguayan periodic journal that played a unique role in the process of intellectual sociability in Latin America. My hypothesis is that his writings offered tools for the history of the literature produced after the political emancipation, at a moment marked by ideological fragmentation, in which he set as a great challenge to find a position between the hegemony of European literature - especially that of French origin - and the need for elaboration of an authentic continental literature. In this sense, by mapping Rodó's sequential publications, it is possible to perceive them as defining lines of a knowledge about Hispanic-American literature, which forged an analytical system interested in the consolidation of a knowledge that included intellectual history, Hispanic-American social thought and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper focuses on Riel y fomento, an argentinian magazine published by the General Administration of the State Railways between 1922 and 1935. With an explicitly nationalist approach, the publication addressed railways issues accompanied by articles related to the promotion of tourism and the dissemination of arts and architecture. The research will be focused on the period 1922-1928 and will delve into several aspects, such as the participation of artists and illustrators, the contributions made by managers and intellectuals and the role of images and articles in the magazine. As a main hypothesis, I argue that Riel y fomento articulated in its pages a project of social and cultural modernization centered on the "civilizing" power of the railroad, translatable in agricultural and industrial growth and in the development of an authentic culture of Americanist values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay places Glengarry Glen Ross in the context of David Mamet's oeuvre and the whole of American drama, as well as in the context of economic capitalism and even U.S. foreign policy. The author pays special attention here (for the first time in English-language scholarship) to the subject of salesmen or selling as depicted in Mamet's drama and earlier in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire--each of which also features a salesman among its characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O presente artigo busca tem como tema as contribuições do jornalista Hipólito José da Costa para o desenvolvimento da linha de pensamento hoje conhecida como americanismo, precedendo, até mesmo, a Alexis de Tocqueville.