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. 0the 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 / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Theorizing Transnational American Studies. Reorienting The Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, And Antipodean / Paul Giles -- Worlding America And Transnational American Studies / Oliver Sheiding -- Archipelagic American Studies: An Open And Comparative Insularity / Brian Russell Roberts -- The Transnational Poetics Of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons / Mina Karavanta -- The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies / William Nessly -- Culture And Performance: Histories And Reciprocities. Cultural Performance And Transnational American Studies / Birgit Bauridl And Pia Wiegmink -- The Barbary Frontier And Transnational Allegories Of Freedom / Karim Bejjit -- Stages Of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures / Birgit Dawes -- The Assembling Of Trans-indigènitude Through International Circuits Of Poetry / Gloria E. Chacon -- Traveling Sounds: Vodou, Michael Jackson, And The Fisk Jubilee Singers / Sabine Kim -- Translating Texts And Transnationalizing Contexts. Translating Poe In New York In The 1880s: Or, Poe's Other Transnationalism / Emron Esplin -- Confucius And America: The Moral Constitution Of Statecraft / Alfred Hornung -- Translations Of American Cultural Politics Into The Context Of Postwar Japan / Hiromi Ochi -- A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie And Japonisme In Onoto Watanna's A Jjapanese Nightingale / Yoshiko Uzawa -- Gender And Transnational American Studies / Sarah Ruffing Robbins -- Ethiopianism, Gender, And Transnationalism In Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood / Elizabeth West -- Transnationalism, Autobiography And Criticism: The Spaces Of Women's Imagination / Isabel Durán -- Political Imaginaries And Transnational Images Of The Political Iconography, Interpictoriality, And Transnational American Studies / Udo J. Hebel -- The Visual Aesthetics Of Politicians And Their Transatlantic Influence / Karsten Fitz -- Lincoln In Africa / Kevin Gaines -- Laws Of Forgiveness: Mandela, Obama, Derrida / Nina Morgan -- Visual Intertextuality And Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism / Rob Kroes -- Post-truth = Post-narrative? Reading The Narrative Liminality Of Transnational Right-wing Populism / Sebastian M. Herrmann -- American Realities: A European Perspective On Trump's America / Liam Kennedy -- Remapping Geographies And Genres. The Performance Of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric And Symbolic Forms In American Western Movies / Boris Vejdovsky -- Border Encounters: Theorizing The Us-mexico Border As Transa / Jennifer A. Reimer -- Transnational And Intersectional Implications Of The Intifada / Denijal Jegic -- Guam, Un-inc.; Or Craig Santos Perez's Transterritorial Challenge To American Studies As Usual / Mary A. Knighton -- Post-apocalyptic Geographies And Structural Appropriations / Hsuan L. Hsu And Bryan Yazell -- Thinking After The Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse Of Transnational American Writing / Takayuki Ttatsumi. Edited By Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung And Takayuki Tatsumi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.