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    L’archipel des Antilles, terres d’Amérique ? : la nouvelle "New Frontier" et ses implications

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    "America to the Americans." For years and years, that phrase conveying the spirit of the "Monroe doctrine" has been periodically evoked to justify the United States’ expansionist and interventionist designs in this region. But is the West Indian archipelago a mere outpost of continental America or a distinct entity that circumscribes what Édouard Glissant has named "The hurricane basin"? What might have prompted the USA to intervene so often in that zone since the Hispano-American war in 1898? Does the concept of "the manifest destiny" find a legitimate application in the Caribbean islands? And can the "Frontier" or "New Frontier" paradigms be useful operators that can guide our reflection? This paper will try and answer those significant questions

    L’archipel des Antilles, terres d’Amérique ? : la nouvelle "New Frontier" et ses implications

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    "America to the Americans." For years and years, that phrase conveying the spirit of the "Monroe doctrine" has been periodically evoked to justify the United States’ expansionist and interventionist designs in this region. But is the West Indian archipelago a mere outpost of continental America or a distinct entity that circumscribes what Édouard Glissant has named "The hurricane basin"? What might have prompted the USA to intervene so often in that zone since the Hispano-American war in 1898? Does the concept of "the manifest destiny" find a legitimate application in the Caribbean islands? And can the "Frontier" or "New Frontier" paradigms be useful operators that can guide our reflection? This paper will try and answer those significant questions

    Espaces et terres d’Amérique

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    Les textes qui composent ce recueil prolongent le colloque "Espaces et Terres d'Amérique" organisé les 7-8 avril 2005 à Toulouse par le Groupe d'Etudes Nord-Américaines (G.E.N.A.), composante du centre Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes (C.A.S.). La thématique de ce recueil a attiré des chercheurs spécialisés tout aussi bien en littérature qu'en civilisation, en histoire ou en linguistique. Il est vrai que l'espace nord-américain se prête à des analyses transdisciplinaires. Les articles, qui traitent de questions de société, d'histoire, de littérature et de culture plus généralement, s'intéressent aux diverses définitions de l'espace américain mais aussi au rapport qu'entretiennent les Américains avec les notions d'espace et de territoire. L'ouvrage examine également des phénomènes identitaires d'autant plus intéressants que cette nation, dont on dit qu'elle est "terre d'immigration," est un laboratoire favorable à l'étude de tels phénomènes. Enfin, il étudie la cartographie de l'espace dressée par les artistes aux États-Unis et la façon dont cet espace est représenté dans la littérature et le cinéma américains The, articles collected in this volume grew out of the conference on "Mapping American Space/ Espaces et Terres d'Amérique," hosted by the North American research group (G.E.N.A.), a member of the Anglophone Culture Center (C.A.S.), at the University of Toulouse on April 7-8, 2005. This volume brings together researchers specializing in literature, history, cultural studies and linguistics, for American space is open to all kinds of enquiries. The articles deal with social, historical, literary, and, more generally, cultural topics, examining not only the different ways of defining American space but also the conceptions Americans entertain in relation to space and territoriality. The questions of identity examined here are all the more absorbing as this nation founded on immigration constitutes a real laboratory for the study of these issues. Finally, this volume looks at the ways in which American artists have mapped American space imaginatively and figured its organization through cinematic and literary representations
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