Main content start
Awards
Faculty
Publications

Latest Issue of Journal of Transnational American Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a journal co-sponsored by Stanford’s American Studies Program, is now online. The journal is proud to publish a new essay by Kevin K. Gaines, "Reflections on Ben Okri, Goenawan Mohamad, and the 2020 Global Uprisings," in a special section responding to the year of uprisings sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. His essay is accompanied by commentary by Nigerian novelist and poet Ben Okri and Jakarta-based editor and writer Goenawan Mohamad. We are also able to present an excerpt from the Shelley Fisher Fishkin 2020 Prize, this year awarded to Christopher B. Patterson of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (University of British Columbia) for Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press). Finally, there are also several individual essays, always an important element of JTAS, which round out this first issue of the journal by the new editor in chief, Alfred Hornung.

the journal oft transnational american studies

Table of Contents | JTAS 12.1 (2021)

1–7 Introduction: Hello from the Other Side | Alfred Hornung, Editor in Chief [pdf]

SPECIAL SECTION: RESPONSES to the 2020 GLOBAL UPRISINGS

9–44 Reflections on Ben Okri, Goenawan Mohamad, and the 2020 Global Uprisings [pdf]

Kevin K. Gaines (University of Viriginia)

45–47 “I can’t breathe”: Why George Floyd’s Words Reverberate around the World [pdf]

Ben Okri

49–51 Strange Fruit [pdf]

Goenawan Mohamad

 

ARTICLES

53–81 Black Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies [pdf]

Suzanne Enzerink (American University of Beirut)

83–106 Lessons from a Different Shore: Japanese American Incarceration and the Redress Movement Portrayed in Western European Newspapers [pdf]

Jonathan van Harmelen (University of California, Santa Cruz)

107–28 Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II [pdf]

Gavin Wilk

SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES

129–185 “Pluralism, Transition, and the Anglophone,” and “Just an American Darker than the Rest: On Queer Brown Exile”

[pdf]

Excerpts from Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, Rutgers University Press Christopher B. Patterson (University of British Columbia)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS [pdf]