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Animating Spirit: Wasted Image and Identity in Don DeLillo’s Underworld

By Tso-wei Hsieh
REAL: Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei wenxue pinglun]

This paper first discusses Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulation and its implication, and examine how “modelized” characters are trapped in the “pixel” world. Then, it shows the process in which the subject tries to transform itself from the simulated “death” to the animated life.

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02.19.09: Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies Released
Journal of Transnational American Studies

We are delighted to announce the inaugural issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS), a new peer-reviewed online journal now available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas.

JTAS is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary study of American cultures in a transnational context and is the first academic journal explicitly focused on what Shelley Fisher Fishkin in her 2004 American Studies Association presidential address called the “transnational turn” in American Studies.

This new journal functions as an open-access forum for Americanists in the global academic community, where scholars are increasingly interrogating borders both within and outside the nation and focusing instead on the multiple intersections and exchanges that flow across those borders. Moving beyond disciplinary and geographic boundaries that might confine the field of American Studies, JTAS is a new critical conduit that brings together innovative transnational work from diverse, but often disconnected, sites in the U.S. and abroad. In order to facilitate the broadest possible cultural conversation about transnational American Studies, the journal will be available without cost to anyone with access to the Internet.

Our inaugural issue reflects an impressive geographic and topical breadth with contributions from scholars and writers based in Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, the U.K., the U.S.A. and Vietnam. It includes selections from forthcoming or recently published books on Asian American art, Thurgood Marshall in Kenya, and constructions of race in the U.S.A. and Brazil, along with meditations by some of the leading figures in the field theorizing transnationalism and analyzing the current moment in American Studies scholarship.

Our first issue also features articles exploring subjects such as appropriations of African American culture in Poland, contrasting political imaginings of the internet in the U.S. and Europe, links between the language of 1890s urban reform and the language of 1890s imperial expansion, chop suey as an invented Chinese food, and new perspectives on transnational dimensions of work by writers including Mark Twain, John Berryman, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

JTAS seeks to bring together the vital contributions to transnational American Studies from scholars who focus on topics as diverse as cultural studies, film and new media, literature, visual arts, performance studies, music, religion, history, politics, and law, as well as scholarship that deals with ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class.

We invite advanced graduate students and established scholars to submit manuscripts for coming issues of JTAS on a rolling basis:
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/cfp.html

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Sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s American Cultures and Global Contexts Center and Stanford University’s Program in American Studies, JTAS is hosted on the eScholarship Repository, which is part of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.