... that celebrate mobility, and more diverse communities in order to reflect on “the interconnected global environment of the new millennium” (2). US literature has become transnational to such an unprecedented extent precisely because the ranks of its writers are filled by immigrant authors, such as Novakovich...

...-American writing, the “Literature of New Arrival” employs new transnational aesthetics by fusing languages and by presenting proliferating plots and neglected histories of the authors’ homelands. The existing scholarship on US postsocialist writing emphasizes the uniqueness of the presented experiences...

...Jeffrey Lawrence This essay argues that Katherine Anne Porter’s Mexico writings of the 1920s and 1930s played a prominent role in the turn toward a transnational “literature of experience” in the interwar US literary field. Reading the stories “Flowering Judas,” “That Tree,” and “Hacienda...

... socialist Europe and the United States. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Eastern Europe immigrant literature postsocialism postsocialist memory Soviet Union transnational US literature It is becoming increasingly clear that new “critical contexts” ( Goldsworthy 2014 : 3...

... on Nabokov, Trousdale examines the author’s use of physics in Ada, considering both his hostility to Einstein’s theory of relativity and his deployment of a deliberately flawed “special relativity” (71) through Van Veen. Trousdale dexterously incorporates scientific ideas into her discussion, never...

... representations of transnational exchanges, exploring to what extent women migrants achieve agency in the complex world of multicultural transactions. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Nadja Tesich Natasha Radojčić transnational literature US post-Yugoslav novel women migrants women’s agency...

... a persuasive case that it is “impossible to form a complete picture of poetry in the [Cold War] US or UK without reference to translations from [the] world” (3) on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The opening chapter positions Between Two Fires in relation to recent work in world literature, Cold War...

... to Czechoslovakia on his political radicalization. The article concludes that the demise of Eastern Europe, a prototypical transnational realm, has facilitated the transnational turn in American studies toward investigations of US imperial practices in other geographical locales. As I have already intimated, I...

...), the critical geographies of fugitive slave narratives written in Mexico as well as the US and Canada (Chapter Two), the perspectives on mainstream “American” literary movements such as modernism and the Beats made possible by a transnational or non-US-based optic (Chapters Three and Four), comparative...

... on the transnational dimensions of immigrant identity moves beyond the realm of established US ethnic literature, it also places the former Eastern Bloc outside of the triangle of the “First-Second-Third” world where it has traditionally functioned as the paradigmatic other. The view of dissident voices...

... depicts a transnational, multicultural, and morally ambivalent world in which his protagonists travel between Russia and the United States, bringing US American culture and consumerist artifacts to Russia. Contemporary Russian-speaking Jewish writers in North America are similarly divided...

... to illuminate how gender is defined around the ideal of the “Englishwoman” (134–35). Snaith’s historical and biographical insights into Rhys will be especially useful to students and scholars encountering the writer’s work for the first time. In “Una Marson: ‘Little Brown Girl’ in a ‘White, White City...

..., Pearson ultimately provides us with a model for understanding the conundrums of the national community and global affiliation that were so generative for expatriate Irish modernists: neither contentedly “Irish” nor serenely “universal,” their writing is “irreducibly situated between these two abstractions...

..., and historical points made throughout Ireland, Literature, and the Coast sometimes get vaguely mingled in Allen’s frequent use of maritime metaphor—for example, “a study of literature and art adrift on the rushing tide of imperial decline and the doldrums that followed it, taking sail again as the midcentury...

... on his writing but without success” (150). Clarke’s letter gives us a glimpse into a transnational web of interests and influences that serves as a perfect il- lustration of the “longitudinal frames” (Dimock 3) and “intercontinental pathways” (142) that Wai Chee Dimock describes: a Spanish poet...

... varieties in practice: The use of the term diaspora implies neither that it offers the comfort of abstraction, an easy recourse to origins, nor that it provides a foolproof anti-essentialism: instead, it forces us to ar­ ticulate discourses of cultural and political linkage only...

... in Parisian libraries (Said 19). The ironies of why a writer goes abroad, to know oneself or to know the other, and of what literature and foreign lands and libraries can teach 35 Tonje Vold us about other places are all at play in Youth’s epigraph. As we are about to embark on a story...

...). If the “ends of America” can be said to mark the “ends of postmodernism,” then it is because what Adams characterizes as “creative remapping” (268) in Americanist literary study successfully locates US literature within transnational networks of cul- tural exchange, so that the particular kind...

..., but at its very margins—on a Caribbean island that at the time was the southernmost point in the nation. The island poems thus express a transnational perspective that, as Paul Giles argues, can allow us to “probe the significance of cultural jagged edges, structural paradoxes, or other forms of apparent...

...” into the position of the “distant other” is potentially very useful for other research. Eurasians in novels like Diver’s, the author shows, are relocated from “the uncan­ nily familiar to the undeniably other.” It would be particularly interesting to explore what more complex writers than...