Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Winfried Fluck, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe -- Introduction: Re-mapping the Transnational Turn -- Part I A Politics of Transnational Melancholia -- 1 Diasporic Doubles: Philip Roth's Operation Shylock: Ulla Haselstein -- 2 "Death Is So Permanent. Drive Carefully.": European Ruins and American Studies circa 1948: Andrew S. Gross -- 3 Landscapes of Trauma: The Transnational Dislocation of Vietnam's War Trauma in Alfredo Vea's Gods Go Begging: William Arce -- 4 The Racial State and the Transatlantic Famine Irish: Peter D. O'Neill -- Part II RE-Disciplinizing Transnational American Studies -- 5 Men in Boats and Flaming Skies: American Painting and National Self-Recognition: Winfried Fluck -- 6 Portraying Transnational America: Aesthetic and Political Dimensions in Winold Reiss's "Plea for Color": Frank Mehring -- 7 Liberty: A Transnational Icon: Sieglinde Lemke -- 8 Belonging and Transnational American Studies: Reflections on a Critical Approach and a Reading of Richard Powers's The Echo Maker: Laura Bieger -- Part III Transnational Pedagogies -- 9 American Studies as Mobility Studies: Some Terms and Constellations: Rüdiger Kunow -- 10 Resistance without Borders: Shifting Cultural Politics in Chicanalo Narratives: Marc Priewe -- 11 Transnational Configurations in New Media: Identity Performance and Community on the Social Web: Reinhard Isensee -- 12 Protocols from the Playing Field: (Digital) Stories of Commitment and Intervention: Matthias Oppermann -- Part IV Transnational Governmentalities -- 13 Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies: John Carlos Rowe -- 14 Andean Gateways: Transnational Healing and Spiritual Tourism in the Sacred Valley, Peru: Macarena Gómez-Barris -- 15 Utopias of Transnationalism and the Neoliberal State: Johannes Voelz.

16 Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History: Nancy Fraser -- 17 Toward a Politics of American Transcultural Studies: Discourses of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism: Günter H. Lenz -- Contributors -- Index.