The 2017 Journal of Transnational American Studies: New Fall Issue
We are excited to announce the publication of the Fall 2107 issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). The larges issue yet, it features over 30 contributions from scholars around the world in African American Studies, American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, French, Gender Studies, History, and Religious Studies. Enjoy!
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Editor-in-Chief’s Note | Nina Morgan
Editor’s Note | Sabine Kim and Greg Robinson
“Introduction: Transnational American Studies in the ‘Age of Trump’”
The Curious Case of Sick Keesar: Tracing the Roots of South Asian America in the Early Republic
Rajender Kaur
Beyond the Black Atlantic: Pacific Rebellions and the Gothic in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
Colleen Tripp
“Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i
Christopher Perreira
Governable Travelers: International Comparison in American Tramp Ethnography
Bryan Yazell
Red Turbans in the Trinity Alps: Violence, Popular Religion, and Diasporic Memory in Nineteenth-Century Chinese America
Robert G. Lee
Fictions and Frictions of the “Panama Roughneck”: Literary Depictions of White, US Labor in the Canal Zone
Sunny Yang
“Strengthen the bonds”: The United States on Display in 1938 France
Caroline M. Riley
Dangerous Playgrounds: Hemispheric Imaginaries and Domestic Insecurity in Contemporary US Tourism Narratives
Daniel Lanza Rivers
Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution
Stacey Andrew Suver
SPECIAL FORUM:LA FLORIDE FRANÇAISE: FLORIDA, FRANCE, AND THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
SF Introduction | François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Darrin M. McMahon, Martin Munro
“A Staged Encounter: French Meeting Timucua in Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues”
Frank Lestringant
“Rereading the ‘Écriteau’: Protestant Myths, Native Alliances, and the Histories of French Florida”
John H. Pollack
“‘People of Bad Disposition’: The Failed French Colony at Fort Caroline as a Site of Local Conflict within a Trans-
Imperial System”
Daniel Vitkus
“Franco/Spanish Entanglements in Florida and the Circum-Atlantic”
Jane Landers
“Becoming Spanish in Florida: Georges Biassou and His ‘Family’ in St. Augustine”
Erica Johnson
“Science / Fiction / Politics: Jules Verne’s Floridas”
Jean-Philippe Mathy
“A Tour de Force: Sarah Bernhardt and Her 1906 Florida Tour”
Lela F. Kerley
“Quebec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road”
Hélène Blondeau
“Images of Florida in the Haitian Novel of Exile”
Joubert Satyre
FORWARD
Forward Editor’s Note | Greg Robinson
“Introduction,” Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives, Rutgers UP, 2017
Yanoula Athanassakis
“Before Nation, Beyond Nation: The Place of ‘Early’ in Transnational American Studies,” in Alfred Hornung, ed. Obama
and Transnational American Studies (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016)
Kristina Bross and Laura M. Stevens
“Introduction,” In Wai Chee Dimock Et Al, Eds. American Literature in the World (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Wai Chee Dimock
“Introduction,” The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Perin Gürel
“A History That ‘Dares Not Speak Its Name’? Atlantic History, Global History and The Modern Atlantic Space” (from Italian version)
Marco Mariano
“Black and Green Atlantic Crossings In The Famine Era,” Famine Irish and the American Racial State (Routledge, 2017)
Peter O’Neill
Migrating the Black Body. The African Diaspora and Visual Culture (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2017)
Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez, eds.
Excerpt Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Vaughn Rasberry
“Introduction,” Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
(Rutgers U. Press/Latinidad series)
Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
“The Violence and the Music, April-December 1899,” excerpt from Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific (New York University Press, 2017)
Vince Schleitwiler
“Introduction,” African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cutural Work in the Age of Jim Crow, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015)
Gary Totten
Excerpt from Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
Christopher Vials
REPRISE
Reprise Editor’s Note | Nina Morgan
“Donna Summer’s Sound of Munich and David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy,” excerpt from German Music in the Seventies (University of Michigan Press, 2016)
Ulrich Adelt
Interview with Paul Bowles in Tangier (Moroccan Cultural Studies Journal, 1999)
Karim Bejjit
Excerpt from Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (NYU Press, 2013)
Catharine Ceniza Choy
with kind regards,
The JTAS Editorial Team