ABSTRACT
Scholars have attended to the different transcultural networks that grow out of contact zones of cultural creation across the Americas. The early histories of conquest and colonization of the Americas become a common ground for US Latinx and Latin American scholars to bring a multipronged approach to their hemispheric scholarship. Many US Latinx scholars who seek to re-orientate cultural histories with an Americas purview in mind have found inspiration in the work of Cuban author and activist, Jose Marti. Fernando Ortiz’s dynamic model has been useful for Latinx scholars to articulate how shared contact zones across the Americas have created powerful transculturative products and this in an ever continuous and transformative way whereby the new fusions lead to the emergence of new cultural phenomena. Several Latinx scholars have excavated early colonial and post-colonial narratives to identify a borderland hemispheric Americas that affirm pan-Amerindian, feminist, and queer subjectivities and experiences.
