Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/Lation: Issues in International American Studies

Hardcover, x + 380 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In a very good, bright dust jacket. -- As the title indicates, Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation points towards the International American Studies Societys aims to promote cross-disciplinary study and teaching of the Americas regionally, hemispherically, nationally and transnationally. But it also reflects, less strategically but more forcefully, the heterogeneous and often unexpected themes, topics and motifs addressed in this forum. These articles are revealing in that they give face and expression to the evolving trends and preoccupations in the field. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the essays explore key questions in International American Studies: what have been the symbolic and material relations between the Americas and the USA, and between America and the World? What are the meanings and workings of these four entities when examined across nations, cultures and languages? In what ways does American experience contribute to the global (re-)production of social, cultural and economic practices? -- Contents: Haunts & Homes of International American Studies [AS] / Susana Araújo; Displacing AS: Updates & Debates [Convergences: IASA in 2007 / Paul Giles; Concentric Hemispheres: AS & Comparative Literature / Djelal Kadir; How USA Transnational Studies Reinforce American Exceptionalism / Jennifer Gurley; Transatlantic Relationships in Higher Education: AS & Impact of the Bologna Process / Ulla Kriebernegg & Roberta Maierhofer; Towards De-centering: Challenges in Theorizing International AS / Evan Heimlich; AS Without a Ground: Relational Questions from a War Zone / Patrick McGreevy; North AS at the University of Tehran / Seyed Mohammad Marandi; Where Is the USA? A View from Croatia / Stipe Grgas]; Representations of Nativeness and Métissage [Transdifference as a Strategy of Resistance in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus / Christina Judith Hein; Cultural Genocide in Linda Hogan's Historical Fiction & Self-Telling; Native Memoir: Writing a Life, Breaking 'Silences All Around'; Who Was Tituba? Transoceanic Crossings & Creative Translations; 'I' Is Where the Encounter Takes Place: Autobiography as an Act of Translation in Sarah Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes; Whitey in the Woodpile: Problem of European Ancestry in Métis Literature; Memory, Identity, Community: White & Métis Writers of French Ancestry Writing Their Subjectivities at the Beginning of the 21st Century]; Transoceanic Exchanges & Cultural Translations [From Cádiz to Montevideo or the Transatlantic Journey of Murga; Prehistory of the British Invasion: Transatlantic Exchange of Folk Music Tradition; Land of Museums, Home of the Hyperreal: America as the Simulation of the Past in the Discourse of Three Postmodern European Intellectuals; Re-interpreting Japanese Canadian Community Movement from Transcontinental and Transpacific Perspectives; Poe's Nevermore, Lisbon's Ravens & Portuguese Ideology of Saudade; Trans/lating Tom: Dramatic Versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Spain & Spanish Americas]; Performing the Americas & Challenging Americas' Performance [TransAmerica? Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity / Stefan Brandt; Greek Slave: Elision and Disjunction in American Anti-slavery Imagery; Uruguayan Songs of Melancholy Displacement in Latin America / Fernando Andacht; Dance on the Transcultural Hyphen: Dis-placement and Re-placement in Contemporary New World African Fiction; Chameleonic Transformations and Reincarnations: Promises and Perspectives in the Americas; Trans/plantation: Sowing Unsustainability; Riding Blackships to Iwo Jima? Transnational Exchanges and Changing Images of Japan in the United States; Trans/lating the War on Terror for Turkey: The United States, Honor and The Valley of the Wolves; Race Politics in an Age of Autogenic Warfare].…