American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

The internationalization of American studies.

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Other Authors: Pease, Donald E. (Editor), Shu, Yuan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transnational American studies and the transpacific imaginary / Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease
  • Part I. Transnational practices: outside/inside American studies
  • How transnationalism reconfigured the field of American studies: the transnational/diaspora complex / Donald E. Pease
  • Post-Soviet American studies / Eva Cherniavsky
  • Transnationalism, planetary consciousness, and American studies / Yuan Shu
  • Part II. Deep maps, postracial imaginaries, diasporized networks, and other transnational literary assemblages
  • Transnational Mark Twain / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  • Racial memory and the modern borders of the nation-state / Rafael Perez-Torres
  • The other side of history, the other side of fiction: form and genre in Susshu Foster's Atomik Aztex / Ramón Saldívar
  • Part III. Remapping the transpacific turn: from the black Pacific and Oceanic ecopoetics to antipodean transnationalisms
  • The manchurian philosopher: W.E.B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific / Etsuko Taketani
  • Toward an ecopoetics of Oceania: worlding the Asia-Pacific region as space-time ecumene / Rob Wilson
  • Antipodean transnationalism: the empire lies athwart / Paul Giles
  • Transpacific studies and the cultures of US imperialism / John Carlos Rowe
  • Part IV. Decolonizing knowledge production for the Pacific century
  • Geopolitics of knowing/understanding and American studies: a decolonial argument or view from the global south / Walter D. Mignolo
  • Industries of memory: the Viêt Nam War in art / Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • ChinAmerica: global affairs and planetary consciousness / Alfred Hornung
  • Negotiating the technological empire: cosmopolitics, colonial modernity, and early Chinese American autobiographical writing / Yuan Shu.