American Studies as Transnational Practice Turning toward the Transpacific / edited by Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pease, Donald E., editor.

Shu, Yuan, 1963- editor.

Series:

Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism--United States.

Transnationalism.

Culture in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Literature and transnationalism--United States.

Literature and transnationalism.

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

United States--Study and teaching.

United States.

Asia--In literature.

Asia.

Pacific Area--In literature.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The internationalization of American studies

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction: Transnational American Studies and the Transpacific Imaginary; Part 1 | Transnational Practices: Outside/Inside American Studies; 1 | How Transnationalism Reconfigured the Field of American Studies: The Transnational/Dispora Complex; 2 | Post-Soviet American Studies; 3 | Transnationalism, Planetary Consciousness, and American Studies; Part 2 | Deep Maps, Postracial Imaginaries, Diasporized Networks, and Other Transnational Literary Assemblages; 4 | Transnational Mark Twain; 5 | Racial Memory and the Modern Borders of the Nation-State

6 | The Other Side of History, The Other Side of Fiction: Form and Genre in Susshu Foster's Atomik AztexPart 3 | Remapping the Transpacific Turn: From the Black Pacific and Oceanic Ecopoetics to Antipodean Transnationalisms; 7 | The Manchurian Philosopher: W. E. B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific; 8 | Toward an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Worlding the Asia-Pacific Region as Space-Time Ecumence; 9 | Antipodean Transnationalism: The Empire Lies Athwart; 10 | Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of US Imperialism; Part 4 | Decolonizing Knowledge Production for the Pacific Century

11 | Geopolitics of Knowing/Understanding and American Studies: A Decolonial Argument or View from the Global South12 | Industries of Memory: The Vietnam War in Art; 13 | Chinamerica: Global Affairs and Planetary Consciousness; 14 | Negociating the Technological Empire: Cosmopolitics, Colonial Modernity, and Early Chinese American Autobiographical Writing; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-388) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-848-5

OCLC:

932003744

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access