Reprise Editor's Note

Nina Morgan

Neoliberalism, Global “Whiteness,” and the Desire for Adoptive Invisibility in US Parental Memoirs of Eastern European Adoption

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere

Pia Wiegmink

Empire’s Mastheads: Rewriting the “Correspondents’ War” from the Edge of Empire

James Berkey

Excerpt from Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines

Jennifer M. McMahon

Excerpt from Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific

Setsu Shigematsu,Keith L. Camacho

Excerpt from Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

David J. Vázquez

Threatening “the Good Order”: West Meets East in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat and John Updike’s Terrorist

Bradley M. Freeman

Forward Editor’s Note

Greg Robinson

“A garden in the middle of the sea”: Henry James’s The Aspern Papers and Transnational American Studies

Nicole Waller

The Shape of Transnational American Studies: Good and Excellent News

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Excerpt from Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Wen Jin

Locas al Rescate: The Transnational Hauntings of Queer Cubanidad

Lázaro Lima

The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

Silvia Schultermandl

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Discontiguous States of America: The Paradox of Unincorporation in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Chamorro Guam

Paul Lai

“from achiote”; “from tidelands”; “from The Micronesian Kingfishers”

Craig Santos Perez

Being Blue in Hawai‘i: Politics, Affect, and the Last Queen of Hawai‘i

Bruce Harvey

A New Factor in American Destiny: Visions of Porfirio Díaz and the Politics of “Logical Paternalism”

Jason Ruiz

Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Excerpt from Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885–1928

Andrea Geiger

Symposium: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism—Transnational Perspectives

Günter H. Lenz,Rob Kroes,Rüdiger Kunow,Alfred Hornung

The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner

Brendan Shanahan

“Deep Maps”: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects (DPMPs, or “Deep Maps”)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Part V. Thirty Years of Research in American Diplomatic History in China”

Xiaode Wang

A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners

Carole Lynn Stewart

Excerpt from African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

Sterling Stuckey

Cultural Nationalism, Orientalism, Imperial Ambivalence: The Colored American Magazine and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Yu-Fang Cho

Excerpt from Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885–1945

Lisa Rose Mar

Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism—Transnational Perspectives: A Response and a Proposal

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Introduction: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics”

Priscilla Roberts

Excerpt from American Studies in China – “Part IV. Thirty Years of Research in American History in China”

Jianming Li

Post-1898 Imaginative Geographies: Puerto Rico Migration in 1950s Film

Cynthia Tolentino

The Propositional Logic of Mapping Transnational American Studies—A Response to “‘Deep Maps’: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects”

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Cosmopolitan Fantasies, Aesthetics, and Bodily Value: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Trans/Gendering of Kautilya

Vermonja R Alston

Staging Unincorporated Power: Richard Harding Davis and the Critique of Imperial News

Nirmal Trivedi

Circa 1898: Overseas Empire and Transnational American Studies

Hsuan L. Hsu

Excerpt from Jack London, Photographer

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Time, Space, and National Belonging in The Namesake: Redrawing South Asian American Citizenship in the Shadow of 9/11

Sue Brennan

Cultural Translation and the Discourse of Transnationalism in American Studies

Rodica Mih？il？

The Networks of Transnational American Studies

Caroline Kyungah Hong

Cosmopolitan Fantasies, Aesthetics, and Bodily Value: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Trans/Gendering of Kautilya

Alston, Vermonja R

Excerpt from God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902

Susan K. Harris

Forward Editor's Note

Greg Robinson

Excerpt from Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

Deborah Cohen

Reprise Editor's Note

Nina Morgan

Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies

Crystal Parikh

Memories, Ghosts, and Scars: Architecture and Trauma in New York and Hiroshima

Sunil Bald

“All for the sake of Freedom”: Hannah Arendt’s Democratic Dissent, Trauma, and American Citizenship

Frank Mehring

An Américain in Africa: The Transatlantic Creations of Paul Belloni du Chaillu

Adam Lifshey