Master-Thesis InterAmerican Studies

The Inter-American Studies Master's Thesis Series publishes the best theses with inter-American perspectives awarded every two years at Bielefeld University. The winners are selected by a jury in cooperation with the Center for Inter-American Studies.
Editors: Editorial board at Kipu-Verlag.

Books in the series Master-Theses in InterAmerican Studies

  • Mobility and Transculturation in the Americas

    Cultural and Linguistic Identity of Samaná Americans Since the 19th Century

    Ann-Kathrin Lauer

  • Black Atlantic Hybrids: Samples of Brazilian Music of the 1960s and 1970s in U.S. American Hip Hop

    Black Atlantic Hybrids

    Samples of Brazilian Music of the 1960s and 1970s in U.S. American Hip Hop

    Stephan Kreher

    This monograph examines how sampling in U.S. Hip Hop transgresses national and regional boundaries. By contextualizing and comparing the Brazilian…

  • Mimicry and Performative Negotiations of Belonging in the Everyday. A Synthesized Analysis of Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

    Mimicry and Performative Negotiations of Belonging in the Everyday

    A Synthesized Analysis of Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

    Jannik Kohl

    In the past three decades, Nira Yuval-Davis‘ concept of belonging as well as Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of mimicry have…

  • La Triple Frontera. Alteridad y frontera en la Literatura entre México y Guatemala

    La Triple Frontera

    Alteridad y frontera en la Literatura entre México y Guatemala

    Atahualpa García Ibarra

    Los estudios actuales sobre literatura y frontera en las Américas se centran en analizar las relaciones entre México y Estados…

Master-Thesis InterAmerican Studies