The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032401577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str.

Opis

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.

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies combines theoretical and applied essays to provide an introduction and overview to the recent transnational turn in American Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies  1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies  Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies  2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean  3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies  4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity  5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons  6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies  Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities  7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies  8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom  9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures  10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry  11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers  Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts  12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism  13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft  14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan  15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale  16. Gender and Transnational American Studies  17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood  18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination  Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political  19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies  20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence  21. Lincoln in Africa  22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida  23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism  24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism  25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America  Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres  26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies  27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa  28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada  29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual  30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation  31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing

O autorze

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.