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- American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
- Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
summary
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.
Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.
Table of Contents
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- Part 1 Transnational Practices: Outside/Inside American Studies
- 2 Post-Soviet American Studies
- pp. 64-83
- Part 2 Deep Maps, Postracial Imaginaries, Diasporized Networks, and Other Transnational Literary Assemblages
- 4 Transnational Mark Twain
- pp. 109-137
- Part 3 Remapping the Transpacific Turn: From the Black Pacific and Oceanic Ecopoetics to Antipodean Transnationalisms
- Part 4 Decolonizing Knowledge Production for the Pacific Century
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 389-390
- Contributors
- pp. 391-394
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611688481
Related ISBN(s)
9781611688467
MARC Record
OCLC
932003744
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes