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The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides
scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and
applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies
as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume
offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes
readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border
crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays
develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound,
literature, identity, film, politics, or performance
transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as
Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael
Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also
addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from
Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays,
written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging
scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources
as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to
Transnational American Studies.
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides
scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and
applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies
as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume
offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes
readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border
crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays
develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound,
literature, identity, film, politics, or performance
transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as
Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael
Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also
addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from
Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays,
written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging
scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources
as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to
Transnational American Studies.
This volume focuses on the intercultural constitution of the
American continent, especially the interactions of indigenous
native with European, African and Asian cultures in North America,
from Puritanism to the 21st century. In an interdisciplinary
dialogue of European and American critics, the contributions
discuss immediate and long-range effects of intercultural
encounters between settlers and ethnic groups, between immigrants
and the Anglo-American mainstream society of the United States in
literary, linguistic, architectural and visual expressions. The
role of the media in the process of intercultural mediation as a
specific feature of American culture is the topic of analyses of
Ralph W. Emerson, American folk art, Irish drama, musicals,
Bollywood films, and TV shows. 'Intercultural America' documents
the need for a transnational form of American Studies.
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