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The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies

Edited By Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, Takayuki Tatsumi Copyright 2019
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge
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    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

    1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies

      2. Shelley Fisher Fishkin

      Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies

    2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean

      3. Paul Giles

    3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies

      4. Oliver Sheiding

    4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity

      5. Brian Russell Roberts

    5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons

      6. Mina Karavanta

    6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies

      7. William Nessly

      Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities

    7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies

      8. Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink

    8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom

      9. Karim Bejjit

    9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures

      10. Birgit Däwes

    10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry

      11. Gloria E. Chacón

    11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers

      12. Sabine Kim

      Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts

    12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism

      13. Emron Esplin

    13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft

      14. Alfred Hornung

    14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan

      15. Hiromi Ochi

    15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale

      16. Yoshiko Uzawa

    16. Gender and Transnational American Studies

      17. Sarah Ruffing Robbins

    17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood

      18. Elizabeth West

    18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: the Spaces of Women’s Imagination

      19. Isabel Durán

      Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political

    19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies

      20. Udo J. Hebel

    20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence

      21. Karsten Fitz

    21. Lincoln in Africa

      22. Kevin Gaines

    22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida

      23. Nina Morgan

    23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism

      24. Rob Kroes

    24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative?: Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism

      25. Sebastian M. Herrmann

    25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America

      26. Liam Kennedy

      Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres

    26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies

      27. Boris Vejdovsky

    27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa

      28. Jennifer A. Reimer

    28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada

      29. Denijal Jegic

    29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual

      30. Mary A. Knighton

    30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation

      31. Hsuan L. Hsu and Bryan Yazell

    31. Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing

    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.

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