The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies
Note
Bibliography
1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies
Introduction
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
PART I: Theorizing Transnational American Studies
2. Reorienting the transnational: Transatlantic, transpacific, and antipodean
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies
Introduction
Transnational American Studies as relational studies
Transnational connectivity and the early Americas
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4. Archipelagic American Studies: An open and comparative insularity
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
5.
The transnational poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous affiliations and impossible comparisons
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
6. The Pacific turn: Transnational Asian American Studies
Boundaries, history, and debates
The transnational turn, the immigrant, and US imperialism
US-centric approaches and Japanese imperialism
The polycentric transpacific
Notes
Bibliography
PART II: Culture and performance: Histories and reciprocities
7. Cultural performance and Transnational American Studies
Concepts and crossroads
Antebellum African American performances of August 1
German-American encounters and epistemologies of embodied performance
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
8. The Barbary frontier and transnational allegories of freedom
Introduction
Refashioning Barbary
The Barbary frontier in American drama
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
9. Stages of crossing: Transnational Indigenous futures
Acts of mapping: Cambodia/Kassel
“We put the earth back together”: Geopolitical borders and
transnational Indigenous trajectories
“Intergenerational continuity and community”: Borders of time
Stages of involvement: Indigenous knowledges and border-crossing aesthetics
Staging trans/national futures
Notes
Bibliography
10. The assembling of trans-indigènitude through international circuits of poetry
Introduction
Abiayala (Latin American) background
Building blocks and the role of poetry
The Medellín poetry festival
Trans-indigènitude in praxis
Trans-indigènitude
The poets
Trans-indigènitude poetry in the making
Notes
Bibliography
11. Traveling sounds: Haitian vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Introduction: Traveling sounds
They Don’t Care About Us as a Filipino cultural product
Haitian vodou: Maintaining the bonds of religious community in the diaspora
Vodou as transnational technological medium
The transatlantic tours of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Notes
Bibliography
PART III: Translating texts and transnationalizing contexts
12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s other transnationalism
Introduction
Pérez Bonalde’s “El cuervo”
Martí’s Poe fragments
Notes
Bibliography
13. Confucius and America: The moral constitution of statecraft
Ezra Pound and Confucius
Confucius and the Founding Fathers
Confucius Institutes in the twenty-first century
Notes
Bibliography
14. Translations of American cultural politics into the context of post-war Japan
Introduction
Promotion of American literature through translation
Presentation of Kawabata as a Cold War modernist: Translation of Japanese literature
Note
Bibliography
15. A mixed legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale
Introduction
Willow pattern scenery
Japonisme à la mode
Retelling Urashima
Notes
Bibliography
16. Gender and Transnational American Studies
Introduction
Bibliography
17. Ethiopianism, gender, and transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood
Introduction
Blueprint for transcontinental black identity: Ethiopianism in early black America
Ethiopianism and transnational blackness in Of One Blood
Gender, transnational spaces, and the black woman in Of One Blood
Notes
Bibliography
18. Transnationalism, autobiography, and criticism: The spaces of women’s imagination
Introduction: The transnational turn in American studies
Autobiography and criticism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
PART IV: Political imaginaries and transnational images of the political
19. Iconography, interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies
Bibliography
20. The visual aesthetics of privacy in American presidential politics and its transatlantic influence
Introduction
The president as national symbol
The president “in private”
The First Family
From farmer to cowboy: The American president as common man
Sexual integrity as moral integrity
A view from abroad: The Americanization of the private sphere in European politics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
21. Lincoln in Africa
Introduction
Notes
22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida
Organizing amnesia
Exceptionalist poetics
Imaginative amnesty: Forgiving and forgetting
Forgotten but not gone: Hauntology
Notes
Bibliography
23. Visual intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American exceptionalism
Introduction
Intertextuality and transnationalism
Cultural and transnational turns
Note
Bibliography
24. Post-truth = post-narrative?: Reading the narrative liminality of transnational right-wing populism
Introduction
Narrative in politics
Post-narrative politics
Symbolic forms and liminality
Political speech as play and database
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
25. American realities: A European perspective on Trump’s America
Introduction
Something happened
A celebrity enters the White House
Reality inertia
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
PART V: Remapping geographies and genres
26. The performance of American popular culture: Rhetoric and symbolic forms in American Western movies
Notes
Bibliography
27. Border encounters: Theorizing the US–Mexico border as transa
Introduction
Tijuanologies
How a border orders disorder
¡Americano!
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
28. Transnational and intersectional implications of the intifada
Introduction
The contemporary transnational colonization of Palestine
Palestine and American studies
Transnational perspectives
Intifada as resistance
Intersectionality
Bibliography
29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s transterritorial challenge to American Studies as usual
Introduction
The deep strata of Guam’s archipelagic history
Remapping the “new” in American literary studies
Locating a moving island: Craig Santos Perez’s “poemaps” of Guam
Unmapping into the Préterrain: Guam’s (sub)aerial roots
Notes
Bibliography
30. Post-apocalyptic geographies and structural appropriation
Introduction
Structural appropriation
The third-worlding of the West
Post-apocalyptic geographies
Notes
Bibliography
31. Thinking after the hemispheric: The planetary expanse of transnational American writing
Introduction
Metamorphoses of the Monroe Doctrine: From Jefferson through George W. Bush
On the Planet of Mississippi: William Faulkner’s The Wild Palms
Fabricating ethnicity, displacing hemispheres: Faulkner, Komatsu, Yamashita
Notes
Bibliography
Index