I've forwarded this message because this new journal reprints all or most of
volume II of the Japanese MARK TWAIN STUDIES, presenting the texts of some
articles on Mark Twain not otherwise readily available to readers of this
list.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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We are delighted to announce the inaugural issue of the Journal of
Transnational American Studies (JTAS), a new peer-reviewed online
journal now available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas.
In order to facilitate the broadest possible cultural conversation on
transnational American Studies, JTAS is available free of charge to
anyone with access to the Internet.
Our first issue reflects an impressive geographic and topical breadth
with contributions from scholars and writers based in Germany,
Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, the U.K., the U.S.A. and Vietnam. It
includes selections from forthcoming or recently published books on
Asian American art, Thurgood Marshall in Kenya, and constructions of
race in the U.S.A. and Brazil, along with meditations by some of the
leading figures in the field theorizing transnationalism and analyzing
the current moment in American Studies scholarship.
Our first issue also features articles exploring subjects such as
appropriations of African American culture in Poland, contrasting
political imaginings of the internet in the U.S. and Europe, links
between the language of 1890s urban reform and the language of 1890s
imperial expansion, chop suey as an invented Chinese food, and new
perspectives on transnational dimensions of work by writers including
Mark Twain, John Berryman, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
We invite advanced graduate students and established scholars to
submit manuscripts for coming issues of JTAS on a rolling basis:
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/cfp.html
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Table of Contents
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas
Forward
[a section of JTAS which previews selections from promising newly-
published work or forthcoming studies that signal important
developments and directions in transnational American Studies]
1) Foreword to Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford
University Press, 2008)
Gordon Chang (Stanford University, USA)
2) Introduction to Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's
African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Mary L. Dudziak (University of Southern California Law School, USA)
3) Selections from “Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic” in Uneven
Encounters: Making Race & Nation in Brazil and the United States
(forthcoming Duke University Press, February 2009)
Micol Seigel (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Essays
1) “The Higher the Satellite, the Lower the Culture?”: African
American Studies in East-Central and Southeastern Europe: the Case of
Poland
Andrzej Antoszek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
2) Toward a Philosophy of Transnationalism
Laura Doyle (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
3) Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John
Berryman’s Dream Songs
Andrew S. Gross (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
4) American Studies Without Tears, or, What Does America Want?
Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
5) From Multiculturalism To Immigration Shock
Paul Lauter (Trinity College, USA)
6) America's Other Half: Slum Journalism and the War of 1898
John P. Leary (New York University, USA)
7) Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food: The Culinary Identity
of Chinese Restaurants in the United States
Haiming Liu (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
8) Self-Colonizing eEurope: The Information Society Merges onto the
Information Superhighway
Stephanie R. Schulte (The George Washington University, USA)
9) Life, Writing, and Peace: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth
Book of Peace
Te-Hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC)
Reprise
[a section of JTAS which republishes difficult-to-obtain critical
works in transnational American Studies that merit a global readership
online]
"New Perspectives on 'The War-Prayer': An International Forum." edited
by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Takayuki Tatsumi. Originally published
in Mark Twain Studies vol. 2, 2006. [Tokyo: Japan Mark Twain Society,
2006] Reprinted with the permission of the Japan Mark Twain Society.
For hard copies of the journal, please contact <[log in to unmask]>.
Essays from the U.S., Japan and Vietnam by Michio Arimitsu, Edward J.
Blum, Darryl Brock, Wesley Britton, Christopher Capozzola, Amanda
Claybaugh, Barry Crimmins, Mark Donig, Patrick Dooley, Tim Edwards,
Dwayne Eutsey, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Adrian Gaskins, John Han, Tsuji
Hideo, Hua Hsu, Mark Hulsether, Michael Kiskis, Helen Lock, Kevin
MacDonnell, Mong-Lan, Makoto Nagawara, Maggi Oran, Ron Powers,
Takayuki Tatsumi, Christopher Vaughn, Nancy Von Rosk, and Martin Zehr.
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Eric L. Martinsen
Managing Editor
Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/
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