1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.
In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump.
The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.
Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies
Alfred Hornung and Nina Morgan
- Collaboration in Transnational American Studies
- Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean
- Worlding America and Transnational American Studies
- Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity
- The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons
- The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies
- Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies
- The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom
- Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures
- The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry
- Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism
- Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft
- Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan
- A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale
- Gender and Transnational American Studies
- Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood
- Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: the Spaces of Women’s Imagination
- Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies
- The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence
- Lincoln in Africa
- Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida
- Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism
- Post-Truth = Post-Narrative?: Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism
- American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America
- The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies
- Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa
- Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada
- Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual
- Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation
- Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies
Paul Giles
Oliver Sheiding
Brian Russell Roberts
Mina Karavanta
William Nessly
Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities
Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink
Karim Bejjit
Birgit Däwes
Gloria E. Chacón
Sabine Kim
Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts
Emron Esplin
Alfred Hornung
Hiromi Ochi
Yoshiko Uzawa
Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Elizabeth West
Isabel Durán
Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political
Udo J. Hebel
Karsten Fitz
Kevin Gaines
Nina Morgan
Rob Kroes
Sebastian M. Herrmann
Liam Kennedy
Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres
Boris Vejdovsky
Jennifer A. Reimer
Denijal Jegic
Mary A. Knighton
Hsuan L. Hsu and Bryan Yazell
Takayuki Tatsumi
Biography
Nina Morgan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University) and a professor of critical theory and literature at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she is also a founder of the American Studies program.
Alfred Hornung is Research Professor of English and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He is also Director of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies.
Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He has served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan and The Poe Society of Japan, in addition to serving as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan.