Carine Mardorossian, Simona Wright編, Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary and Cultural Intersections at NeMLA. Vernon P, 2023. A5変形判xxviii+115頁, N.p.

This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA’s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of space, national, and cultural geographies; to foster both the re-thinking of language(s) and literature(s) not exclusively in English and the study of race, gender, sexuality, and class within and across national boundaries. Most pertinently for this collection, we hope to add meaningful material to produce new theoretical paradigms and to rethink the role and significance of the humanities in today’s world. In this light, 'Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary, Cultural, and Language Intersections at NeMLA' offers a contribution to the study of our present, transnational condition, from the point of view of an organization, the 'Northeast Modern Language Association', that since its inception in 1969, has sought to provide a space of encounter, debate, and open intellectual exchange for all its members as well as for the academe at large. The essays contained in this volume emphasize the interdependency and interrelations engendered by the globalized world in which we live, highlighting the possibility to create new knowledge and forms of understanding across the boundaries of nationhood and region. At the same time, they remind us that the present situation calls for a radical self-examination of a history of systemic racism which continues to produce episodes of police brutality, rationalizes cultural and economic exclusion, and normalizes the incarceration of African Americans and “illegal” immigrants, including children and minorities. In this light, with this volume, we hope to have provided inclusive, egalitarian, and cosmopolitan spaces of encounter, exchange, and interrogation.  

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction: transnational spaces. Celebrating fifty years of literary, cultural, and language intersections at NeMLA

Carine Mardorossian

University of Buffalo

Simona Wright

The College of New Jersey

Chapter 1

Inhabiting transnationalism: the production, embodiment, and appropriation of transnational identity

Yasaman Naraghi

Gonzaga University

Andrea Delgado

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Chapter 2

The global imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: “The Gold-Bug” and natural history in South Carolina

Fumiko Takeno

Tokai Gakuen University

Chapter 3

Transnational flows in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project

Robert Morace

Daemen University, Amherst, New York

Chapter 4

Writing against the wall: the transnational history of the U.S. in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Gema Ortega

Dominican University

Chapter 5

A constellation of suffering and solidarity: building transnational community in Omar El Akkad’s American War

Jennifer Ross

University of Toronto

Chapter 6

Nomadic transitions through non-Oedipal spaces in two films about migrant workers from the Global South

Java Singh

Doon University

Chapter 7

Traveling from Sri Lanka: rewriting and remapping the postcolonial in dis-placement

Shelby E. Ward

Tusculum University

Chapter 8

Homelessness as the new concept of home? Space, Heimat and privilege in Abbas Khider’s novel Ohrfeige (2016)

Gabriele Maier

Carnegie Mellon University

Index