Special Topic: The Advent of Transnational American Studies
Table of Contents
The KASA Manifesto
Keio University’s American Studies Association: Its Origins and History3
Opening Remarks
Takayuki Tatsumi, "Transnational American Studies: or, Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific, Trans-Chronological"
Keynote AddressesMark, Seltzer, "Transit Zones: The Novel in the Epoch of Social Systems"Nina Morgan, "Editing Transnational American Studies"Alfred Hornung, "Living Transnational American Studies"
Panel I: Transfiguring Literary HistoryShogo Tanokuchi, "The Curious Gaze on Asian Junks: Herman Melville’s Art of Exhibition"
Yumiko Koizumi, "Gothic Concerto: Reading Lemuel Hopkins’s “Guillotina” (1796-99)"Kaori Hosono, "Staging Selves, Freeing Freaks: Michael Jackson’s Greatest Show on Earth"
Shunsuke Shiga, "Living in a Nowhere Land: The Beatles as a Cultural Vehicle in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake"
Panel II:Trans-Atlantic Imaginings
Hisayo Ogushi, "Double Vision: Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive and the Frontier Imagination"
Keiko Nitta, "A Voyage Across the Multicultural Atlantic: Edith Wharton’s Double Consciousness"
Greg Bevan, "No Comment: Depictions of the Transnational in Paul Bowles’ Points in Time"
Thae-Ho Jo, "Imagining the Racial-Religious Other: The Representation of Saracens in Middle English Romances"
Panel III: The Trans-Pacific Turn
Yoshiko Uzawa, "Yone Noguchi’s Style of Literary Adaptation in Gentō-romansu (1929)"
Hiromi Ochi, "Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-War Japan"
Mary A. Knighton, "from unincorporated territory ~ to Craig Santos Perez’s Poemaps"
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