Neoliberalism, Global “Whiteness,” and the Desire for Adoptive Invisibility in US Parental Memoirs of Eastern European Adoption

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Reprise Editor's Note

Nina Morgan

Excerpt from Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines

Jennifer M. McMahon

Excerpt from Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific

Setsu Shigematsu,Keith L. Camacho

Empire’s Mastheads: Rewriting the “Correspondents’ War” from the Edge of Empire

James Berkey

Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere

Pia Wiegmink

The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

Silvia Schultermandl

Excerpt from Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Wen Jin

Forward Editor’s Note

Greg Robinson

The Shape of Transnational American Studies: Good and Excellent News

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Locas al Rescate: The Transnational Hauntings of Queer Cubanidad

Lázaro Lima

“A garden in the middle of the sea”: Henry James’s The Aspern Papers and Transnational American Studies

Nicole Waller

Threatening “the Good Order”: West Meets East in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat and John Updike’s Terrorist

Bradley M. Freeman

“from achiote”; “from tidelands”; “from The Micronesian Kingfishers”

Craig Santos Perez

Discontiguous States of America: The Paradox of Unincorporation in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Chamorro Guam

Paul Lai

Excerpt from Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

David J. Vázquez

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Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies

Crystal Parikh

Cultural Nationalism, Orientalism, Imperial Ambivalence: The Colored American Magazine and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Yu-Fang Cho

A New Factor in American Destiny: Visions of Porfirio Díaz and the Politics of “Logical Paternalism”

Jason Ruiz

Symposium: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism—Transnational Perspectives

Günter H. Lenz,Rob Kroes,Rüdiger Kunow,Alfred Hornung

A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners

Carole Lynn Stewart

Being Blue in Hawai‘i: Politics, Affect, and the Last Queen of Hawai‘i

Bruce Harvey

Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Cultural Translation and the Discourse of Transnationalism in American Studies

Rodica Mih？il？

Post-1898 Imaginative Geographies: Puerto Rico Migration in 1950s Film

Cynthia Tolentino

Excerpt from African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

Sterling Stuckey

The Propositional Logic of Mapping Transnational American Studies—A Response to “‘Deep Maps’: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects”

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Circa 1898: Overseas Empire and Transnational American Studies

Hsuan L. Hsu

Excerpt from God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902

Susan K. Harris

Excerpt from Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

Deborah Cohen

The Networks of Transnational American Studies

Caroline Kyungah Hong

Cosmopolitan Fantasies, Aesthetics, and Bodily Value: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Trans/Gendering of Kautilya

Alston, Vermonja R

Forward Editor's Note

Greg Robinson

Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism—Transnational Perspectives: A Response and a Proposal

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Staging Unincorporated Power: Richard Harding Davis and the Critique of Imperial News

Nirmal Trivedi

Post Scriptum: Memories, Ghosts, and Scars: Architecture and Trauma in New York and Hiroshima

Sunil Bald

Memories, Ghosts, and Scars: Architecture and Trauma in New York and Hiroshima

Sunil Bald

“Deep Maps”: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects (DPMPs, or “Deep Maps”)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Reprise Editor's Note

Nina Morgan

“All for the sake of Freedom”: Hannah Arendt’s Democratic Dissent, Trauma, and American Citizenship

Frank Mehring

An Américain in Africa: The Transatlantic Creations of Paul Belloni du Chaillu

Adam Lifshey

Time, Space, and National Belonging in The Namesake: Redrawing South Asian American Citizenship in the Shadow of 9/11

Sue Brennan

The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner

Brendan Shanahan

Excerpt from Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885–1928

Andrea Geiger

Cosmopolitan Fantasies, Aesthetics, and Bodily Value: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Trans/Gendering of Kautilya

Vermonja R Alston

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Part V. Thirty Years of Research in American Diplomatic History in China”

Xiaode Wang

Excerpt from Jack London, Photographer

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Introduction: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics”

Priscilla Roberts

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Part IV. Thirty Years of Research in American History in China”

Jianming Li