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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.
- “A Movable Feast:” Life Writings/Narrations in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
- Fiction as Re-Construction of History: Narratives of the Civil War in American Literature
- Die Bush-Administration und die Reform von Corporate Governance
Announcements
02.19.09: Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies ReleasedJournal 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:
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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.
06.29.07: Safundi to be Published by RoutledgeSafundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 26, 2007
Routledge Journals is proud to announce the first issue of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies to be published in print and online by Routledge.
Safundi is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal that analyses the United States and South Africa from an international, transnational, and comparative perspective and seeks to understand each country in relation to the other. It first appeared as an online journal in 1999, and its readership quickly grew to form a community of more than 2,500 scholars throughout the world.
Safundi will appear four times a year on both print and online formats. It is under the editorial direction of its founding editor, Andrew Offenburger, Yale University. His fellow editors are Dr Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town; Dr Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania; and twenty others primarily at universities in the US and South Africa.
Offenburger said: ‘We are thrilled to be associated with Routledge. The editors and I see this as an opportunity for a symbiotic relationship, between Routledge and Safundi, and between a printed and electronic presence. Having guided the journal since its nascent stages—when online journals were still relatively unknown entities—I am eager to see how Safundi and our community grow, thanks to this partnership and the journal’s new print version’.
Jon Manley, African Studies journal Publisher at Routledge, added: ‘This is a rare opportunity for Routledge to take an established online community of scholars and an electronic journal and support them by the more traditional and well-understood paper publication model. We believe the strength and reputation of the Routledge African Studies programme—as well as the associated areas such as international relations—will combine to give Safundi a new international profile and the exposure it deserves.’
About Safundi
Founded in 1999, Safundi used the Internet to publish the latest research on the US and South Africa. In 2003 and again in 2005, Safundi published its best articles in book format, and it expanded its online offerings to include three databases: a member directory, a comparative US/South African bibliography, and a database of comparative syllabi for educators. The title Safundi derives from the initial letters of South Africa and America and the word ‘fundi’, which comes from the Xhosa verb, -funda, which translates as ‘to read’ or ‘to learn’. For more, see http://www.safundi.com.
About Routledge Journals
Routledge Journals is part of Taylor & Francis, an Informa business, and is one of the world’s leading publishers of academic journals. Taylor & Francis is dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly information, drawing on expertise developed since first publishing learned journals in 1798. Taylor & Francis now publishes 1,250 scholarly journals in association with 340 learned societies and scholarly institutions. The Company operates from a network of 19 global offices, including Philadelphia, Oxford, Melbourne, Stockholm, Beijing, New Delhi, Singapore and Johannesburg.
The first Routledge issue of Safundi (Volume 8, No 1) can be downloaded free of charge at: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsaf
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Journal of American History
PLEASE NOTE: INDIVIDUALS CAN MAKE ANONYMOUS RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE JAH ON REQUEST. THE JAH WILL CONTACT THE AUTHOR.
The Organization of American Historians is now inviting entries for the 2008 David Thelen Award for the best scholarly article on U.S. history written in a language other than English. An entry should be concerned with events or processes that began, developed, or ended in what is now the United States. It should make a significant and original contribution to the understanding of American history. We especially welcome comparative and transnational studies that present American readers with pieces of their history through the distinctive lenses of others.
The competition is open to scholars around the world whose native language is not English. Eligible is any article-length work published during the years 2005 and 2006 in a journal, essay collection, festschrift, or other publication. The article must have been originally written in a language other than English, and it must not have appeared as a published work in English. The winner is awarded a cash prize ($500) as well as publication of the article (in English translation) in the Journal of American History. Deadline for submission is May 1, 2007.
Entries should be mailed to the following address:
Ed Linenthal, Editor, Journal of American History
Committee Chair
David Thelen Award Committee
1215 E Atwater Ave
Bloomington, IN 47401
United States
Please include: 5 copies of the article; contact information; a 1-2 page essay in English containing a short summary of the article and a statement regarding the scholarly contribution the entry makes.
Please direct any questions to:
John Baesler
Editorial Assistant for Internationalization
Journal of American History
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Journal of American History
The Organization of American Historians is now inviting entries for the 2008 David Thelen Award for the best scholarly article on U.S. history written in a language other than English. An entry should be concerned with events or processes that began, developed, or ended in what is now the United States. It should make a significant and original contribution to the understanding of American history. We especially welcome comparative and transnational studies that present American readers with pieces of their history through the distinctive lenses of others.
The competition is open to scholars around the world whose native language is not English. Eligible is any article-length work published during the years 2005 and 2006 in a journal, essay collection, festschrift, or other publication. The article must have been originally written in a language other than English, and it must not have appeared as a published work in English. The winner is awarded a cash prize ($500) as well as publication of the article (in English translation) in the Journal of American History. Deadline for submission is May 1, 2007.
Entries should be mailed to the following address:
Ed Linenthal, Editor, Journal of American History
Committee Chair
David Thelen Award Committee
1215 E Atwater Ave
Bloomington, IN 47401
United States
Please include: 5 copies of the article; contact information; a 1-2 page essay in English containing a short summary of the article and a statement regarding the scholarly contribution the entry makes.
Please direct any questions to:
John Baesler
Editorial Assistant for Internationalization
Journal of American History
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The American Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of its latest website, American Studies Journals Worldwide. This website highlights the latest research in American studies worldwide and is the outcome of the ASA’s International Initiative, a multi-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.