The Editors of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a peer- 
reviewed online, open-access journal published by the American  
Cultures and Global Contexts Center at the University of California- 
Santa Barbara and the Program in American Studies at Stanford  
University, are delighted to announce the publication of the journal's  
newest issue. JTAS 2.1 features a previously unpublished essay by W.  
E. B. Du Bois and an article by Mark Twain that has not been reprinted  
since its initial publication in 1868, as well as contributions from  
scholars based in Argentina, Canada, Japan, Korea, Spain, and the  
United States. In addition to new articles that examine questions in  
American Studies as the field intersects productively and  
problematically with other national cultures, societies, politics, and  
histories, the journal contains excerpts from newly published books in  
transnational American studies (in the Forward section),  and select  
re-publication of significant contributions to the  field (in the  
Reprise section). The table of contents of JTAS 2.1 is pasted below.

The journal may be accessed without charge at http://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas 
.

Please consult the Call for Papers section of the web site for details  
on the journal's standing CFP as well as CFPs for open special forums  
and instructions for submitting to the Forward and Reprise sections of  
the journal.

JTAS 2.1 CONTENTS
April 2010

Introduction
Yanoula Athanassakis; Eric L. Martinsen

FORWARD

Forward Editor’s Note
Greg Robinson

Special Editor’s Note
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Excerpt from A Fighting Diva
Konomi Ara

Excerpt from Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
Belinda Edmondson

Excerpt from A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North  
America
Greg Robinson

ARTICLES

“The Afro-American”
W. E. B. Du Bois

“Of Horizon: An Introduction to ‘The Afro-American’ by W. E. B. Du Bois 
—circa 1894”
Nahum D. Chandler

“Housing the ‘Other’ Half: American Studies’ Global Urban Turn”
David Faflik

“From the End of History to Nostalgia: The Manchurian Candidate, Then  
and Now”
Junghyun Hwang

“Disorienting the Furniture: The Transgressive Journalism of Alfonsina  
Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman”
Mariela E. Méndez

“The Making of a Hemispheric Intellectual and Statesman: Leo S. Rowe  
in Argentina (1906–1919)”
Ricardo D. Salvatore

“The Junkyard in the Jungle: Transnational, Transnatural Nature in  
Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest”
Begoña Simal

“The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet?”
Bryce Traister

“Dancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and the  
Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance  
Association”
Sau-ling C. Wong

REPRISE

Reprise Editor’s Note
Nina Morgan

“The Treaty with China” (1868)
Mark Twain

“Mark Twain, ‘The Treaty with China,’ and the Chinese Connection”
Martin Zehr

“Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere”
Emory Elliott

“The Many Sides of Happy Lim: aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum,  
Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kim Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon  
Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Lim Ying  
Chuck, Lim Ah Wing, et. al”
Gordon Chang