American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific [Paperback]

This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume elaborates on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and describes the material changes that this new paradigm has effected during the past two decades. The contributors hail from a variety of postcolonial, transoceanic, hemispheric, and post-national positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorize a crossroads of cultures explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.

YUAN SHU is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Texas Tech University. DONALD E. PEASE is professor of English and the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.

Introduction: Transnational American Studies and the Transpacific ImaginaryYuan Shu and Donald E. Pease PART 1. TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES: OUTSIDE/INSIDE AMERICAN STUDIES How Transnationalism Reconfigured the Field of American Studies: The Transnational/Diaspora ComplexDonald E. Pease Post-Soviet American StudiesEva Cherniavsky Transnationalism, Planetary Consciousness, and American StudiesYuan Shu PART 2. DEEP MAPS, POSTRACIAL IMAGINARIES, DIASPORIZED NETWORKS, AND OTHER TRANSNATIONAL LITERARY ASSEMBLAGES Transnational Mark TwainShelley Fisher Fishkin Racial Memory and the Modern Borders of the Nation-StateRafael P?rez-Torres The Other Side of History, the Other Side of Fiction: Form and Genre in Susshu Fosters Atomik AztexRam?n Sald?var PART 3. REMAPPING THE TRANSPACIFIC TURN: FROM THE BLACK PACIFIC AND OCEANIC ECOPlӬ