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ISBN 10: 0415641926 
ISBN 13: 9780415641920
Author: Rocio Davis

This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples that allow for an exploration of concrete manifestations of this phenomenon and trace its development within and outside the United States. Contributors consider the ways in which artifacts or manifestations of American culture have traveled and what has happened to the texts in the process, inviting readers to examine the nature of the transnational turn by highlighting the cultural products that represent and produce it. Emphasis on literature, film, and music allows for nuanced perspectives on the way a global phenomenon is enacted in American texts within the U.S, also illustrating the commodification of American culture as these texts travel. The volume therefore serves as a coherent examination of the critical and creative repercussions of transnationalism, and, by juxtaposing a discussion of creativity with critical paradigms, unveils how transnationalism has become one of the constitutive modes of cultural production in the 21st century.

The Transnationalism of American Culture Literature Film and Music 1st Table of contents:

1 Mapping American Studies in the Twenty-First Century Transnational Perspectives1
Broadening the Frame
The Cross-Fertilization of Cultures
Transnational Dimensions of Canonical Figures
Attention to Travel and Travelers
Notes
Part I Broadening the Frame
2 Transnational Spaces and Black American Identities in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark
Notes
3 Remembering What to Forget Memory as Transnational Practice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
Notes
4 Transnational and Transcultural Exchanges in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
An Iranian Alice in the American Wonderland
Traveling Texts and Rereading Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran in the Asian Context
Notes
Part II 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
British Cinema and the Problem of Hollywood
The Ambivalence of a Star and her Studio
Gangway and it’s Love Again: Choosing between Hollywood or Home
Conclusion: Zeitgeist as Auteur
Notes
6 Postcommunist American Dreams in Romanian Music
“The Americans are Coming”!?
Self-Americanization in Romania
Post-1989 American Dreams
Repositioning the United States
Transnational Drims
Acknowledgments
Notes
7 Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan Revisited Musical “Authenticity” and Transnational Adaptations of Country and Folk Music
Notes
Part III Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Canonical Writing
8 “I Just Want to Go Home” Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama and Disturbed American Transnationalism
Notes
9 “Vagabond Internationalism” The Transnational Life and Literature of Claude Mckay
Acknowledgments
Notes
10 Multiculturalism with Transnationalism Food Scenes as Contact Zones
Hospitality as a Linchpin of Multicultural and Transnational Relations
Two Brief Illustrations
Notes
Part IV Narratives of Travel and Migration
11 Intersecting Atlantic Trajectories in Junot Diaz’s and Edwidge Danticat’s Stories
I: Agua-Ntando
II: Middle Passages Revisited
III: The Aguantando Mood or the Gerund of History
Notes
12 Spheres of Influence in Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation The Classroom, the Blog, and the Ethnic Story
From the Factory Floor to the School Room Door
In the Education Sphere
The American Dream Meets “Americanisms”: Old Types and New Beginnings
The Real in Realist Fiction: A Beginning in Conclusion
Notes
13 Hospitality across the Atlantic American Guests and the International Space of Flows in Spielberg

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