Abstract

"Empire" is the keyword that frames both the field of Latina/o studies and what Latina/o studies projects interrogate in order to make visible how empire's scattered remains throughout the Americas cross national borders as well a affective states of being. In so doing, Latina/o studies' methodological recourse to and critique of empire seeks to apprehend empire's legacies beyond the singular historical actor model of the exceptional nation-state in order to engage how empire saturates and conditions affects across space, time, and bodies.

Document Type

Book Chapter

ISBN

9781479883301

Publication Date

2017

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Copyright © 2017 New York University Press. This book chapter first appeared in Keywords for Latina/o Studies.

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