Nina Morgan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University) and a professor of critical theory and literature at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she is also a founder of the American Studies program. Alfred Hornung is Research Professor of English and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He is also Director of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies. Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He has served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan and The Poe Society of Japan, in addition to serving as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan.

• Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity 5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons 6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities 7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies 8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom 9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures 10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry 11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts 12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism 13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft 14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan 15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale 16. Gender and Transnational American Studies 17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood 18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political 19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies 20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence 21. Lincoln in Africa 22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida 23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism 24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism 25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres 26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies 27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada 29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual 30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation 31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing

Nina Morgan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University) and a professor of critical theory and literature at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she is also a founder of the American Studies program. Alfred Hornung is Research Professor of English and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He is also Director of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies. Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He has served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan and The Poe Society of Japan, in addition to serving as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan.

• Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity 5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons 6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities 7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies 8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom 9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures 10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry 11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts 12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism 13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft 14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan 15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale 16. Gender and Transnational American Studies 17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood 18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political 19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies 20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence 21. Lincoln in Africa 22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida 23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism 24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism 25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres 26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies 27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada 29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual 30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation 31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing

Nina Morgan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University) and a professor of critical theory and literature at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she is also a founder of the American Studies program. Alfred Hornung is Research Professor of English and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He is also Director of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies. Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He has served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan and The Poe Society of Japan, in addition to serving as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan.

• Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity 5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons 6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities 7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies 8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom 9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures 10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry 11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts 12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism 13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft 14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan 15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale 16. Gender and Transnational American Studies 17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood 18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political 19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies 20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence 21. Lincoln in Africa 22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida 23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism 24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism 25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres 26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies 27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada 29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual 30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation 31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing