Hot off the presses:  a Special Forum on “Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the latest issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies <https://www.facebook.com/Journal-of-Transnational-American-Studies-235841183154162/?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=kK-R>.  It was a pleasure and a privilege to co-edit the Special Forum with Tsuyoshi Ishihara <https://www.facebook.com/tsuyoshi.ishihara.754?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R> in Japan, Ronald Jenn <https://www.facebook.com/ronald.jenn.33?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R> in France, Holger Kersten in Germany and  Selina Lai-Henderson <https://www.facebook.com/selinaslai?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R> in China. The Special Forum   examines   the translation histories of Huck Finn in  Iran, France, the Arab world, Germany, Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, Brazil, Spain, India, and Taiwan, exploring how the novel has shaped cultural conversations about literature, racism, vernacular language and the US in nine different regions of world. Many thanks to contributors Behnam Fomeshi, Ronald Jenn, Véronique Channaut, Hamada Kassam <https://www.facebook.com/hamada.kassam?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R>, Winston Kelley, Margarita Marinova <https://www.facebook.com/margarita.marinova.587?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R>  Vera Lúcia Ramos,  Miguel Sanz Jiménez, Seema Sharma <https://www.facebook.com/seema.sharma.7121?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=-]K-R>   and An-chi Wang for their fascinating essays!  The Journal of Transnational American Studies <https://www.facebook.com/Journal-of-Transnational-American-Studies-235841183154162/?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=kK-R> (JTAS)  is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal co-sponsored by Stanford University's American Studies Program <https://www.facebook.com/Stanford-Universitys-American-Studies-Program-199045813441065/?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=kK-R>  and the Obama Institute / American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz <https://www.facebook.com/americanstudiesmainz/?__cft__[0]=AZVjC6Pgrjj7dhNXbDC7phUqFRMccpriMpu2p_15lU60eLo-87V3QeN4AJVDI3UinEUlSsImHbwQgTBr80Qh742pgT83gwT1_gPyWx6y8bsoBk_-tz4nRky9WL5wbn93Xq-rPG7Vnh2bluD4MBko_VPT&__tn__=kK-R> , and published on UC-Berkeley’s scholarship platform. https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fescholarship.org%2Fuc%2Facgcc_jtas%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3i8Z0pfv54Vi0i8KSoHasv4B3Raxp6dIQKHsJARIr3J7RoJPhN03ftiys&h=AT3rvc1PeRq-wyxPrQMjLgHtgdH3b9UGl5ycyy7IL13t_BAO_fO9CwFTnyhMxcGBk1jNpf9x0CK3DsllJqsTFwsuI0bCriSwfC0qMc2s0UMht5IxquhZSORZK2NgOr4Z7CNW&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1FQZVuBNQIjGpATiwumnzVqjrycQvoJGuas6ycaqP1kfqRQ4HueciZkaUebRh_ZXPyRUlETR7WZicAN8p_Jpnfq2CF-j307XQOe64f_tI4seGJFEvKfFrDPw9wj2xEmhpSrr7A45iW3UPfueqbN4ftVFum98f0mWOvTVvkSDu0Rkro>

 
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin 
Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities; Professor of English, and  Director of American Studies, Stanford University
Mail: Department of English, Bldg. 460, 450 Jane  Stanford Way, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2087
https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley-fisher-fishkin <https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley-fisher-fishkin>