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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524903603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©[2015]

ISBN

1-61168-848-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

810.9/895

Soggetti

Transnationalism - United States

Culture in literature

Imperialism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Literature and transnationalism - United States

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

United States Study and teaching

Asia In literature

Pacific Area In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

The internationalization of American studies