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08 April 2008, Leeds, UK

World's leading Americanists discuss Transnational American Studies in journal special issue

The first issue (Volume 6 number 1) of Comparative American Studies for 2008 is a special issue, Transnational American Studies - For What?, edited by Paul Giles and R J Ellis, and featuring articles from some of the world's leading Americanists.

The purpose of the cluster of essays is to think about what has happened since the New Americanist movement took hold: what may have been lost, as well as gained, in the movement of American Studies towards more comparative perspectives, and where things might be heading.

Articles:

Ÿ Alan Trachtenberg in Conversation with Paul Giles

Ÿ Transnational American studies for what?, Joel Pfister

Ÿ Representation, Emerson, and the New Americanists, Johannes Völz

Ÿ The A-Historical Actor on the Historical Stage: American Studies, the Cultural Borderline Personality, and John Sayles' Lone Star, Alan Nadel

Ÿ 'No Arranged Terror': Ammons after the New Americanists, Kevin McGuirk

Ÿ Semi-Mojo, or Shaft in Scarsdale: Michael Rogin and Comparative American Studies, Eric Lott

Ÿ A New Americanist's Supplemental Notes to Comparativist Analyses of the New American Studies, Donald E. Pease

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Comparative American Studies is an international journal repositioning discussions about American culture within an international, comparative framework by extending scholarly debate about American studies beyond the geographical boundaries of the United States. In this time of increasing globalization there is a growing need for American Studies to be re-articulated in a comparative manner: first and foremost taking account of interactions between the USA and other parts of the world, whilst also fully attending to multi-ethnic comparisons within the USA. 

The main disciplines covered in the journal are literature, film, popular culture, photography and the visual arts. Attention is also given to history, the social sciences and politics, particularly insofar as these fields impact on cultural texts.

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