American Studies as Transnational Practice

Introduction: Transnational American Studies and the Transpacific Imaginary—Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease • PART 1. TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES: OUTSIDE/INSIDE AMERICAN STUDIES • How Transnationalism Reconfigured the Field of American Studies: The Transnational/Diaspora Complex—Donald E. Pease • Post-Soviet American Studies—Eva Cherniavsky • Transnationalism, Planetary Consciousness, and American Studies—Yuan Shu • PART 2. DEEP MAPS, POSTRACIAL IMAGINARIES, DIASPORIZED NETWORKS, AND OTHER TRANSNATIONAL LITERARY ASSEMBLAGES • Transnational Mark Twain—Shelley Fisher Fishkin • Racial Memory and the Modern Borders of the Nation-State—Rafael Pérez-Torres • The Other Side of History, the Other Side of Fiction: Form and Genre in Susshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex—Ramón Saldívar • PART 3. REMAPPING THE TRANSPACIFIC TURN: FROM THE BLACK PACIFIC AND OCEANIC ECOPOETICS TO ANTIPODEAN TRANSNATIONALISMS • The Manchurian Philosopher: W. E. B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific—Etsuko Taketani • Toward an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Worlding the Asia-Pacific Region as Space-Time Ecumene—Rob Wilson • Antipodean Transnationalism: The Empire Lies Athwart—Paul Giles • Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of US Imperialism—John Carlos Rowe • PART 4. DECOLONIZING THE GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PACIFIC CENTURY • Geopolitics of Knowing/Understanding and American Studies: A Decolonial Argument or View from the Global South—Walter D. Mignolo • Industries of Memory: The Vi?t Nam War in Art—Viet Thanh Nguyen • ChinAmerica: Global Affairs and Planetary Consciousness—Alfred Hornung • Negotiating the Technological Empire: Cosmopolitics, Colonial Modernity, and Early Chinese American Autobiographical Writing—Yuan Shu • Contributors • Index