Title:
The transnationalism of American culture : literature, film, and music / edited by Rocío G. Davis.
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;
Main Entry:
Davis, Rocío G.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Date:
2012.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780415641920 (hbk.)
Subject:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Literature and transnationalism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Motion pictures and transnationalism.
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Music and transnationalism.
Series:
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 20
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Mapping American Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Perspectives / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- pt. I 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 -- pt. 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 / James Stone -- 6.Postcommunist 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 -- pt. III 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 -- pt. IV 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 / Jesus Benito.
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