American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific

418 Pages·2016·2.691 MB·English

by  Yuan Shu, Donald E. Pease

American
Studies as
Transnational
Practice
Turning toward the Transpacific
edited by yuan shu & donald e. pease

AmericAn StudieS AS trAnSnAtionAl PrActice

re-mAPPing the trAnSnAtionAl
A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
SerieS editor
Donald E. Pease
Avalon Foundation Chair of Humanities
Founding Director of the Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
The emergence of Transnational American studies in the wake of the Cold War
marks the most significant reconfiguration of American studies since its inception.
The shock waves generated by a newly globalized world order demanded an un-
derstanding of America’s embeddedness within global and local processes rather
than scholarly reaffirmations of its splendid isolation. The series Re-Mapping the
Transnational seeks to foster the crossnational dialogues needed to sustain the vi-
tality of this emergent field. To advance a truly comparativist understanding of this
scholarly endeavor, Dartmouth College Press welcomes monographs from scholars
both inside and outside the United States.
For a complete list of books available in this series, see www.upne.com.
Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease, editors, American Studies as Transnational
Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific
Melissa M. Adams-Campbell, New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives
to Companionate Marriage
David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editors, A Power to Translate the
World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture
Elèna Mortara, Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Mortara Case, and the Age
of Transatlantic Emancipations
Rob Kroes, Prison Area, Independence Valley: American Paradoxes in Political
Life and Popular Culture
Etsuko Taketani, The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race
and Empire between the World Wars
William V. Spanos, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the
Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court
Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, and Johannes Voelz, editors, The Imaginary and
Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn
Paul A. Bové, A More Conservative Place: Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era

EditEd by yuan Shu and
donald E. PEaSE
amErican
StudiES aS
tranSnational
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Turning toward the Transpacific
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contentS
Introduction: Transnational American Studies
and the Transpacific Imaginary 1
YuAn Shu And donAld e. PeASe
PArt i. trAnSnAtionAl PrActiceS: outSide/inSide
AmericAn StudieS
1 How Transnationalism Reconfigured the Field of American
Studies: The Transnational/Diaspora Complex 39
donAld e. PeASe
2 Post-Soviet American Studies 64
evA cherniAvSkY
3 Transnationalism, Planetary Consciousness,
and American Studies 84
YuAn Shu
PArt ii. deeP mAPS, PoStrAciAl imAginArieS,
diASPorized networkS, And other
trAnSnAtionAl literArY ASSemblAgeS
4 Transnational Mark Twain 109
ShelleY FiSher FiShkin
5 Racial Memory and the Modern Borders of
the Nation-State 138
rAFAel Pérez-torreS
6 The Other Side of History, the Other Side of Fiction: Form
and Genre in Susshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex 156
rAmón SAldívAr
PArt iii. 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 169
etSuko tAketAni
8 Toward an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Worlding the Asia-Pacific
Region as Space-Time Ecumene 213
rob wilSon
9 Antipodean Transnationalism: The Empire
Lies Athwart 237
PAul gileS
10 Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of US Imperialism 259
John cArloS rowe
PArt iv. decolonizing knowledge Production
For the PAciFic centurY
11 Geopolitics of Knowing/Understanding and
American Studies: A Decolonial Argument or View from
the Global South 279
wAlter d. mignolo
12 Industries of Memory: The Viê.t Nam War in Art 311
viet thAnh nguYen
13 ChinAmerica: Global Affairs and Planetary
Consciousness 340
AlFred hornung
14 Negotiating the Technological Empire: Cosmopolitics,
Colonial Modernity, and Early Chinese American
Autobiographical Writing 365
YuAn Shu
Acknowledgments 389
Contributors 391
Index 395