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- Forward Editor's Introduction
Authors: Reimer; Jennifer A.
Abstract: Forward Editor's Introduction
PubDate: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- About the Contributors
Authors: Managing Editor; JTAS
Abstract: About the Contributors
PubDate: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of
International Education
Authors: Hankin; Kelly
Abstract: From Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of International Education by Kelly Hankin. © 2021 by Rutgers University Press. Used with permission of the Publisher. Publisher website: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/documenting-the-american-student-abroad/9781978807686
PubDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Excerpt from Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian
American Literatures
Authors: Suzuki; Erin
Abstract: From Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures, by Erin Suzuki, pages 1-5. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2021 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved. Publisher website: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/ocean-passages
PubDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction and Forms of Memoir: Four Case Studies In Movement,
Migration, and Transnational Life Writing
Authors: Maneval; Stefan
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Reimer, Jennifer A.
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Hili, Ikram
Abstract: From Forms of Migration: Global Perspectives on Im/migrant Art & Literature, edited by Stefan Maneval and Jennifer A. Reimer. © 2022 by Falschrum Books. Used with permission of the Publisher. Publisher website: https://www.falschrum.org/forms-of-migration.html
PubDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Need to Transnationalize
Authors: Hornung; Alfred
Abstract: Issue Introduction by the journal's Editor in Chief
PubDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction from The Beats in Mexico
Authors: Calonne; David Stephen
Abstract: From The Beats in Mexico by David Stephen Calonne. © 2022 by Rutgers University Press. Used with permission of the Publisher. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-beats-in-mexico/9781978828728
PubDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Excerpt from James Theodore Holly: Black Nationalist and Religious
Writings
Authors: Robinson; Greg
Abstract: From James Theodore Holly: Black Nationalist and Religious Writings, edited by Greg Robinson. © 2020, Montreal by Le Centre International de Documentation et d'Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne. Used with permission of the publisher. Publisher website: https://www.amazon.com/James-Theodore-Holly-Nationalist-Religious/dp/1643825348
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Insect Poetics: James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments
Authors: Allewaert; Monique
Abstract: Originally published in Early American Literature, Volume 52, Number 2. Copyright © 2017 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.org
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction from Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures,
1776–1920
Authors: Hughes; Linda K.
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Robbins, Sarah Ruffing
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Taylor, Andrew
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Hakim-Hood, Heidi
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Nemmers, Adam
Abstract: From Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920: An Anthology edited by Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor (with associate editors Heidi Hakimi-Hood and Adam Nemmers). © 2022 by Edinburgh University Press. Used by permission. Publisher website: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transatlantic-anglophone-literatures-1776-1920.html
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Preface, Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational
Authors: Savory; Elaine
Abstract: From Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational edited by Jude V. Nixon and Maria Concetta Constantini. © 2022 by Vernon Press. Used by permission of the publisher. Publisher website: https://vernonpress.com/book/1365
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Poe’s Gold Bug from the Standpoint of an Entomologist
Authors: Smyth, Ellison A; Jr.
Abstract: Originally published in The Sewanee Review 18, no. 1 (January 1910): 67-72.
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction--Americanist and Planetary Wormholes: The Insect and America
in the World
Authors: Roberts; Brian Russell
Abstract: Reprise Editor's Introduction
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction from Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese
American Film Culture before World War II
Authors: Khor; Denise
Abstract: Introduction from Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II (University of North Carolina Press)
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Insects, War, Plastic Life
Authors: Mawani; Renisa
Abstract: Renisa Mawani, “Insects, War, Plastic Life,” in Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, ed. Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, 159–87. Copyright 2015, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the copyright holder and the publisher. www.dukeupress.edu
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Excerpt from The More Known World
Authors: Tsao; Tiffany
Abstract: Chapter 10 of Tiffany Tsao’s The More Known World is republished with permission from the copyright holder, Tiffany Tsao.
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Mediterranean Americans to Themselves, from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity
Authors: Anagnostou; Yiorgos
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Patrona, Theodora
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Kalogeras, Yiorgos D.
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Cocola, Jim
Abstract: Editors' introduction from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona, eds.Chapter by Jim Cocola from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona, eds.© 2022 by Fordham University Press. Used with permission of the Publisher. Publisher website: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823299713/redirecting-ethnic-singularity/
PubDate: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +000
- In the News
Authors: Serrano; Aoife Rivera
Abstract: An excerpt from The Quickening of Albizu Campos: How Feminism Galvanized the Last American Liberator, by Aoife Rivera Serrano, New York: Ausubo Press, 2022.© 2022 by Aoife Rivera Serrano. Used by permission of the publisher. Publisher website: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781932982008/the-quickening-of-albizu-campos-how-fenianism-galvanized-the-last-american-liberator.aspx
PubDate: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- International Clientele, from Dressing Up: The Women Who influenced French
Fashion
Authors: Block; Elizabeth L.
Abstract: From Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion by Elizabeth L. Block. Copyright © 2022 by MIT Press. Used by permission of the publisher. Publisher website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045841/dressing-up/
PubDate: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction: Theorizing and Teaching Transnational American Studies
Around the Globe
Authors: Shu; Yuan
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Lai-Henderson, Selina
Abstract: Critical approaches to teaching and theorizing transnational American studies after the post-American turn.
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Education of a Black Professor in Wuhan, China
Authors: Power-Greene; Ousmane K.
Abstract: This article explores my experiences as a Black American professor teaching American Studies at Wuhan University during the summer of 2019. It focuses on the various lessons I learned about China as both a teacher and scholar of Black social and political movements. In many ways, my experiences defied what my American colleagues told me it would be like being Black in China. Given the Chinese governments’ reputation for harsh treatment of intellectuals who criticize the government, this article also offers my impressions of the anxiety White professors I met in China felt about teaching particular topics. Ultimately, the article examines how my experiences teaching American Studies in Wuhan forced me to rethink my own motivations for coming to China, as well as the motivations of the Black radicals I teach about, who came to China because of US governmental repression.
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Graphic Matters: Teaching Asian American Studies with Graphic Narratives
in Taiwan
Authors: Feng; Pin-Chia
Abstract: In this essay I first draw upon selected cases to briefly map out crucial issues relevant to teaching Asian American studies in East Asia. I then use my own teaching experience to illustrate how graphic narratives can help non-native students cultivate needed cultural and historical literacy in order for them to review and challenge the dominant ideologies that have informed their imagined vision of the United States. I argue that the graphic form can make visible the systematic operations of racial, class, and gender inequality inside and outside the United States, an understanding that is essential to the practice of transnational American studies.
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- United States Aerial Archives: Teaching and Theorizing Transnational
American Studies in Japan
Authors: Taketani; Etsuko
Abstract: Aeriality has emerged as one of the most defining perceptual and cognitive practices of the 20th century. This shift in perspective has changed the way one looks at the Earth, races, and species and their relationships to one another and to the environment. In this essay, I discuss the use of what I have heuristically termed “aerial archives” in teaching about American-occupied Japan (1945–1952). The operational definition of this term refers to texts, literary or otherwise, that operate as archiving systems, representing and relating a shift in the aerial imagination, and the corollary shifting ground it caused in the global imagination.
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Transnational American Studies, Ecocritical Narratives, and Global
Indigeneity: A Year of Teaching in Norway
Authors: Spurgeon; Sara L.
Abstract: Texas and Norway may appear to be worlds apart—one flat, arid, and sprawling across the vast US West, the other green, mountainous, and defined by its waters. Yet they face surprisingly similar challenges resulting from economies built on the oil industry in a world now wracked by climate change. This essay assumes that indigenous sovereignty and social justice issues are inextricable from environmental concerns, and engages the experience of teaching and researching indigenous texts and petro-fictions, from Saami novels to writings about Standing Rock, during a Fulbright year in Norway.
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Teaching and Theorizing American Studies in Singapore and Southeast Asia
in the Post-American Era
Authors: Shu; Yuan
Abstract: In this paper, I share my experience in teaching and theorizing American studies in Singapore and Southeast Asia as a Fulbright scholar from 2017 to 2018. Through my own teaching at the National University of Singapore and lectures at universities in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, I examine what it means by American studies in the Asia Pacific in what critics call the post-American era. Drawing examples from literary studies themes such as post-9/11 literature, ethnic American literature, and environmental literature and genre specifics like graphic novel, video games, Hollywood cinema, visual and performance arts, I also call attention to special topics, which may vary from the Black Pacific to Vietnam War and the War on Terror. I argue that American studies have been taught differently in countries in Southeast Asia with Singapore showing its own interest and position in the region. There is a high demand on American studies in terms of theory, method, and diversity...
PubDate: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +000
- About the Contributors
Authors: Managing Editor; JTAS
Abstract: Bios
PubDate: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Materials of Art and the Legacies of Colonization: A Conversation with
Beatrice Glow and Sandy Rodriguez
Authors: Hsu; Hsuan L.
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Vázquez, David J.
Abstract: A conversation with the artists Beatrice Glow and Sandy Rodriguez, whose work reckons with the imperial and colonial histories that underlie conventional materials of art and aesthetic experience. Glow and Rodriguez share insights about their artistic processes, their experiments with pigment-making, scent production, field research, and collaboration, and how they have reflected on and enacted alternatives to the transnational sourcing of pigments, dyes, scents, and tastes.
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Affective Chemistries of Care: Slow Activism and the Limits of the
Molecular in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Authors: Lee; Rachel
Abstract: In this article, I explore care work outlined and performed as emotional and erotic support labor in Ocean Vuong’s novel, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous (2019). The illnesses around which Vuong stages salient scenes of care work are not those easily addressed by surgery or a course of antibiotics. Instead, the novel focalizes those who are “[sick] in the brains” (122)— formally diagnosed with a mood disorder like bipolar, observed for behaviors of PTSD, addicted to narcotics, or grieving the loss of a body part. The unique contribution of Vuong’s novel to those interested in health and environmental humanities, disability studies, and reproductive labor, I argue, requires noticing that its portraits of care work come interleaved with its depictions of atmospheric dangers. Those atmospheric dangers include weather effects as well as sequelae from military weapons deployment and the un(der)regulated circulation of slowly violating chemicals. In relation to the theme of...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- TGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies
of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Authors: Quadri; Zaynab
Abstract: During the height of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014, US military bases featured an amenity both familiar and unexpected: name-brand fast food (NBFF), such as TGI Friday’s, Burger King, Subway, and Pizza Hut. Drawing on firsthand accounts from soldiers, journalists, and bloggers, as well as academic literatures on critical food studies and cultures of imperialism, this article analyzes the circulation of NBFF in Iraq and Afghanistan as a mechanism by which to sustain US imperialism. It argues that NBFF generates the intimacy of “home” for US soldier-consumers and is deployed as enticing inducement for an all-volunteer military force to perform the necessary labor to maintain US empire across two war zones. NBFF simultaneously provided a profitable opportunity for the expansion of US corporations and capital, as contractors and subcontractors from across the global supply chain were mobilized to provide easy access to these comfort foods. Thus, the article...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire
Authors: Choudhury; Athia N.
Abstract: In “The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire,” Athia Choudhury develops a far-reaching critical genealogy of caloric biocitizenship that reframes her personal experiences with calorie counting and fat-phobic discourses that stigmatize the bodies and pleasures of racialized, working-class people, especially female bodied and fem-identifying people. Tracing practices of energy management and bodily discipline from colonial military outposts, nineteenth-century domestic manuals, dietetic discourses in the Philippines, and Native American Boarding Schools to a range of reform projects that framed calories as a tool for inculcating responsible eating through the domestic practices of white, bourgeois women, Choudhury highlights continuities between colonial subjection and modern biocitizenship, as well as the ways in which the putatively objective metric of the calorie positioned the New American Woman as a powerful catalyst for policing race in the...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- From Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists
and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age
Authors: Takeuchi-Demirci; Aiko
Abstract: In 1947, the US National Academy of Sciences established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) and sent American scientists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the delayed effects of the atomic bombs among survivors. James Neel, medical professor at the University of Michigan, headed the genetics team of ABCC whose mission was to measure the possible genetic mutations caused by radiation. After the conclusion of the ABCC studies, Neel and his scientific team continued to use the resources and subjects in southern Japan to conduct research on the genetics of consanguineous marriages in Japan. This article explores how both the ABCC genetic studies and consanguinity studies reflected American fears about rising mutations in an apocalyptic atomic age. Studies on inbreeding illuminated the nature and extent of mutations in a “pure” genetic population. Furthermore, the Japanese data were used for genetic counseling back in America, helping to address the American public’s...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Recognition, Resilience, and Relief: The Meaning of Gift
Authors: Kirwan; Padraig
Abstract: Winner of the Fishkin Prize 2021.
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Viruses, Vaccines, and the Erotics of Risk in Latinx HIV Stories and
Covid-19
Authors: Bost; Suzanne
Abstract: In 2019, I published Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (University of Illinois Press), in which I discuss contagion as a metaphor for embracing our shared materiality with others. Six months later, during the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors were crossing streets to avoid each other. Social distancing is, counterintuitively, asking us to view separation and seclusion as forms of solidarity. But how can we be solid if we are oriented against each other' Isolation itself has become contagious: sharing repulsion and rejection, measuring six feet of “social” distance from others. These spaces are made up of a variety of immaterial entities—ideology, fear, caring, and faith—and material ones like invisible microbes. This essay revisits my writings about radical kinship and shared materiality in the works of Tim Dean and John Rechy in light of this emerging ethics of distance. This focus is particularly important today as contagion, following...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Visions of Consent Nunavummiut Against the Exploitation of “Resource
Frontiers”
Authors: Hickey; Amber
Abstract: Despite a long history of colonial, military, and extractive industry imposition on the land, waters, and people of Inuit Nunangat, resistance to such efforts is thriving. Through highlighting the work of The Place Names Program and Arnait Video Productions, I show how Nunavummiut (the people living in Nunavut) employ visual media to publicly wage their place-based knowledge as a mode of creative intervention against military and extractive forces, and the ways in which such forces have permeated Inuit bodies, lands, and waters. So successful are these visual acts of resistance that they compel southerners to reevaluate their approaches to northern development so drastically that projects are abandoned or no longer seen as viable. In putting these strategies into practice, Inuit engage with state-sanctioned systems of law and governance, but ultimately reshape these structures to better suit their own needs and...
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Birdseye’s Frosted Possession: Processing, Storing, and Transmitting the
Gift of Inuit Thermocultural Knowledge,
Authors: Brousseau; Marcel
Abstract: On August 12, 1930, Clarence Birdseye patented his “Method of Preparing Food Products,” a “quick” freezing machine that “for the first time produced ... a compacted, quick frozen block of comestibles ... which can be stored ... transported ... and ... after being thawed, reassumes its original condition.” Birdseye’s innovation in the frozen food industry is typically historicized as a progress narrative, wherein the lone inventor masters the molecular forces of water, salts, metal, cardboard, flesh, and plant matter. This teleology is further contextualized within an exploration account, wherein Birdseye’s curiosity is piqued during his years as a fur trader who observes the Labrador Inuit practice of quick-freezing fish. In this article, I use Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s concept of “white possessive logics” to interrogate how Birdseye’s racialized assumption of ownership dislocated Inuit epistemologies into industrial metanarratives....
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Editor in Chief's Introduction
Authors: Hornung; Alfred
Abstract: Introduction: Transnational American Studies in the Time of Covid-19
PubDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Introduction: The Molecular Intimacies of Empire
Authors: Hsu; Hsuan L.
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Vázquez, David J.
Abstract: Special Forum Editors
PubDate: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk
in the American Colonial Philippines
Authors: Ventura; Theresa
Abstract: This article invokes the “molecular intimacies of empire” to illuminate the links between the superfood status of coconut oil and plantation labor in the American colonial Philippines. Prior to the American occupation in 1898, coconuts were a local crop that offered small growers a degree of protection from capitalist agriculture. A mere two decades later, coconut plantations occupied more than two million acres of land; copra – the dried kernels from which oil is pressed – was the archipelago’s third major export industry; and the industry employed at least four million people along a commodity chain that included prisoners, landed planters, and oil refiners. Transimperial tropical research stations, economic botany, and penal farms propelled this change. US-run prison plantations in the southern Philippines served as living laboratories for the racial management of labor and the bioengineering of trees bearing fruit all year. Though the copra trade comprised production of...
PubDate: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Specter of the Pandemic: Politics and Poetics of Cholera in
19th-Century Literature--An Introduction
Authors: Höll; Davina
Abstract: In the nineteenth century, cholera made a deep impression on the collective memory of entire generations. As a human-medical borderline experience, it was a scientific driving force, a political destabilizing factor, and a challenge to poetics. At the interface of literary studies and medical history and by using nineteenth-century literary texts from North American, British, and German authors as examples, this transnational study shows for the first time comprehensively, that despite a supposed “impossibility of narration”, the traumatic pandemic experience of cholera found its way into contemporary literature, particularly in the model of the specter. Through culturally and historically framed textual analyses of literary texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, Heinrich Heine, Ricarda Huch, and others as well as a variety of contemporary life writing documents, the study explores the multifarious intersections of lifeworld and literature....
PubDate: Thu, 5 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- About the Contributors
Authors: Managing Editor; JTAS
Abstract: About the Contributors
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
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