Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation

Issues in International American Studies
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1650-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten

I took a trip down to L’America To trade some beads for a pint of gold.
Jim Morrison

As the title indicates, Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation points towards the International American Studies Society’s aims to promote cross-disciplinary study and teaching of the Americas regionally, hemispherically, nationally and transnationally. But it also reflects, less strategically but more forcefully, the heterogeneous and often unexpected themes, topics and motifs addressed in this forum.

These articles are revealing in that they give face and expression to the evolving trends and preoccupations in the field. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the essays explore key questions in International American Studies: what have been the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas” and the “USA,” and between “America” and the “World”? What are the meanings and workings of these four entities when examined across nations, cultures and languages? In what ways does American experience contribute to the global (re-)production of social, cultural and economic practices?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferreira Duarte, João

Araújo, Susana

Pacheco Pinto, Marta

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Pacheco Pinto is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and a researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies of the same University. Cultural translation and Portuguese orientalism are her main research interests. She is also assistant director of the literary journal Textos e Pretextos.

João Ferreira Duarte is professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, where he has taught and researched on Literary Theory, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Translation Studies at the Interface of Disciplines (John Benjamins, 2006) and Stories and Portraits of the Self (Rodopi, 2007).

Susana Araújo (BA Lisbon, MA Warwick, PhD Sussex) is a researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. She works on and teaches contemporary fiction, cultural memory and urban space. Her articles have been published in journals such as Studies in the Novel, Symbiosis and Women’s Studies, and she has recently guest-edited a special issue of Review of International America Studies.