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 _____________________ 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 Join Our Email Announcements List http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/announcements.html 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. ======================================== Eric L. Martinsen Managing Editor Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/