The Transnationalism of American Culture: Literature, Film, and Music Book

Introduction: Perspectives on Transnational American Cultures Rocío G. Davis 1. Mapping American Studies in the 21^st Century: Transnational Perspectives Shelley Fisher Fishkin Part 1: Broadening the Frame 2. Transnational Spaces and Black American Identities in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark Jopi Nyman 3. Remembering What to Forget: Memory as Transnational Practice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Silvia Schultermandl 4. Transnational and Transcultural Exchanges in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Pin-chia Feng Part 2: The Cross-Fertilization of Culture 5. "I used to like gangsters and newspaper films, but I’m not so sure now:" The Hollywood Dreams of Jessie Matthews and the British Film Industry James Stone 6. Post-Communist American Dreams in Romanian Music Ioana Luca 7. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan Revisited: Musical "Authenticity" and Transnational Adaptations of Country and Folk Music Monika Mueller Part 3: Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Canonical Writing 8. "I just want to go home:" Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama and Disturbed American Transnationalism Alison Lutton 9. "Vagabond Internationalism:" The Transnational Life and Literature of Claude McKay Bairbre Walsh 10. Multiculturalism with Transnationalism: Food Scenes as Contact Zones Samir Dayal Part 4: Narratives of Travel and Migration 11. Intersecting Atlantic Trajectories in Junot Diaz’s and Edwidge Danticat’s Stories Ana Mª Manzanas 12. Spheres of Influence in Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation: the Classroom, the Blog, and the Ethnic Story Monica Chiu 13. Hospitality across the Atlantic: American Guests and the International Space of Flows in Spielberg’s The Terminal and Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things Jesús Benito