Globalizing American Studies

Introduction: Globalizing American Studies

Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

Part I

1. American Studies after American Exceptionalism? Toward a Comparative Analysis of Imperial State Exceptionalisms

            Donald E. Pease

2. Bodies of Knowledge: The Exchange of Intellectuals and Intellectual Exchange between Scotland and America in the Post-Revolutionary Period

            Kariann Akemi Yokota

3. Ralph Ellison and the Grain of Internationalism

            Brent Hayes Edwards

4. Cold War, Hot Kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the Speakin Place of Cold War Womanhood

            Kate Baldwin

Part II

5. Circulating Empires: Colonial Authority and the Immoral, Subversive Problem of American Film

            Brian Larkin

6. Scarlett O’Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, Colonial Politics, and Arab Spectatorship during World War II

            Elizabeth F. Thompson

7. Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: Cultures of Dependency and Border Crossings in Late Porfirian Mexico

            Claudio Lomnitz

8. Transpacific Complicity and Comparatist Strategy: Failure in Decolonization and the Rise of Japanese Nationalism

            Naoki Sakai

Part III

9. War in Several Tongues: Nations, Languages, Genres

            Wai Chee Dimock

10. Neo-Orientalism

            Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams

11. American Studies in Motion: Tehran, Hyderabad, Cairo

            Brian T. Edwards

List of Contributors
Index