{"title":"Doing Transnational American Studies Abroad","authors":"Alfred Hornung","doi":"10.5070/t814161203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814161203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47948156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caribbean cultural tourism is deeply entwined with American empire and its trans-oceanic mobilities, yet transnational Caribbean cultural production constantly exceeds and escapes such limiting constructs. Music and dance are some of the greatest enticements of travel around the Caribbean region, both for the artists who produce that music and for the audiences who participate in it. In many ways, the Aluminum Corporation of America (hereafter ALCOA) was spreading mid-century American Empire through cultural promotion of Caribbean arts, music recordings, and cultural tourism — imagined as access to a kaleidoscopic archipelago of sounds, rhythms and inviting styles of dance. However, Caribbean music creators and consumers also had their own transnational cultural agendas and musical itineraries, suggesting their competing constructs of a transnational musical space. How did the archipelagic imaginary of Caribbean tourism intersect with, interfere with, or otherwise intensify the intra-regional and transnational artistic and musical mobilities that imagined the archipelago on different terms? In this essay, we combine the insights of a cultural sociologist (Sheller) and a musicologist (Martin) to interrogate the meanings of the first Caribbean Festival of the Arts (hereafter Caribbean Festival) in shaping divergent archipelagic spaces and competing musical itineraries and Black Atlantic soundscapes, both imperial and anti-imperial. Following
{"title":"AlterNative Archipelagos and the 1952 Caribbean Festival: Musical Mobilities Escaping ALCOA’s Extractive Tourism","authors":"M. Sheller, A. R. Martin","doi":"10.5070/t814160836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160836","url":null,"abstract":"Caribbean cultural tourism is deeply entwined with American empire and its trans-oceanic mobilities, yet transnational Caribbean cultural production constantly exceeds and escapes such limiting constructs. Music and dance are some of the greatest enticements of travel around the Caribbean region, both for the artists who produce that music and for the audiences who participate in it. In many ways, the Aluminum Corporation of America (hereafter ALCOA) was spreading mid-century American Empire through cultural promotion of Caribbean arts, music recordings, and cultural tourism — imagined as access to a kaleidoscopic archipelago of sounds, rhythms and inviting styles of dance. However, Caribbean music creators and consumers also had their own transnational cultural agendas and musical itineraries, suggesting their competing constructs of a transnational musical space. How did the archipelagic imaginary of Caribbean tourism intersect with, interfere with, or otherwise intensify the intra-regional and transnational artistic and musical mobilities that imagined the archipelago on different terms? In this essay, we combine the insights of a cultural sociologist (Sheller) and a musicologist (Martin) to interrogate the meanings of the first Caribbean Festival of the Arts (hereafter Caribbean Festival) in shaping divergent archipelagic spaces and competing musical itineraries and Black Atlantic soundscapes, both imperial and anti-imperial. Following","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45602313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Layered Maps: Carceral and Fugitive Archipelagos in Walter Mosley’s Down the River Unto the Sea","authors":"Nicole Waller","doi":"10.5070/t814160711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48928377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Contributors","authors":"JTAS Managing Editor","doi":"10.5070/t814161205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814161205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135832716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In her essay memoir A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand reflects on the meaning of desire by describing formative childhood reading experiences that evoked the feeling of desire which would later reverberate in her reading and writing practice. There, desire is framed as something expansive and powerful: “Desire’s province widened to the flying pieces, their occasional collection into a movement or a colour or a sigh, ever shifting, ever reimagined.” 1 Desire, thus, hints at a set of continued pos-sibili ties. As Deleuze observes, desire is “a positive force, it is not purely psychic, not a lack as usually understood but productive in nature; like labour, desire is actualised in the course of practice.” 2 Desire as actualized in practice presupposes movement: It is generated through a kind of inward movement and reaches outward, extending a relation to something or someone else. In this essay, we read desire across two books — Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996) and Canisia Lubrin’s poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) — which extend these relations across the archi-pelago spanning Canada and the Caribbean. For Brand, though desire does appear as an active force in Door of No Return , it is impossible t o be grasped as a whole; it remains opaque: “I want to say something else about desire. I really do not know what it is. I experience something which, some-Gfoellner
{"title":"\"Near enough to smell and far enough to desire”: Archipelagos of Desire in Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here","authors":"Barbara Gfoellner, S. Thomsen","doi":"10.5070/t814160839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160839","url":null,"abstract":"In her essay memoir A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand reflects on the meaning of desire by describing formative childhood reading experiences that evoked the feeling of desire which would later reverberate in her reading and writing practice. There, desire is framed as something expansive and powerful: “Desire’s province widened to the flying pieces, their occasional collection into a movement or a colour or a sigh, ever shifting, ever reimagined.” 1 Desire, thus, hints at a set of continued pos-sibili ties. As Deleuze observes, desire is “a positive force, it is not purely psychic, not a lack as usually understood but productive in nature; like labour, desire is actualised in the course of practice.” 2 Desire as actualized in practice presupposes movement: It is generated through a kind of inward movement and reaches outward, extending a relation to something or someone else. In this essay, we read desire across two books — Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996) and Canisia Lubrin’s poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) — which extend these relations across the archi-pelago spanning Canada and the Caribbean. For Brand, though desire does appear as an active force in Door of No Return , it is impossible t o be grasped as a whole; it remains opaque: “I want to say something else about desire. I really do not know what it is. I experience something which, some-Gfoellner","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47630237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrating the Isthmus: Mobilities and Archipelagic Memory in Texts about the Panama Canal","authors":"G. Pisarz-Ramírez","doi":"10.5070/t814160724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49074442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
What Joseph Campbell in his classical study calls the “monomyth” is, as psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés notes, a meta-narrative that “informs and [… ] spiritually grows the cultures, and the peoples within those cultures, through its universal cache of idioms and images.” 1 Acknowledging that human placemaking, meaning-making, and storytelling rely on mental mapping and mapmaking, this essay expands the scrutiny of narrative structures of placemaking towards the realms of spatial imaginations, human geographies, and transnational cartographic practices of mobility. Tracing both colonial and anti-colonial nodes of these practices across oceanic circuits makes visible what Albert Wendt described as “so fabulously varied a scatter of islands, nation s, cultures, mythologies and myths, so dazzling a creature.” 2 What emerges is, I suggest, an archipelagic cartography that opens new venues for critical reconceptualizations of islands, mainlands, centers, peripheries, colonial histories, and transnational future trajectories.
{"title":"Unmasking Maps, Unmaking Empire: Towards an Archipelagic Cartography","authors":"Steffen Wöll","doi":"10.5070/t814160835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160835","url":null,"abstract":"What Joseph Campbell in his classical study calls the “monomyth” is, as psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés notes, a meta-narrative that “informs and [… ] spiritually grows the cultures, and the peoples within those cultures, through its universal cache of idioms and images.” 1 Acknowledging that human placemaking, meaning-making, and storytelling rely on mental mapping and mapmaking, this essay expands the scrutiny of narrative structures of placemaking towards the realms of spatial imaginations, human geographies, and transnational cartographic practices of mobility. Tracing both colonial and anti-colonial nodes of these practices across oceanic circuits makes visible what Albert Wendt described as “so fabulously varied a scatter of islands, nation s, cultures, mythologies and myths, so dazzling a creature.” 2 What emerges is, I suggest, an archipelagic cartography that opens new venues for critical reconceptualizations of islands, mainlands, centers, peripheries, colonial histories, and transnational future trajectories.","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49530835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archipelagic Thinking: The Insular, the Archipelago, and the Borderwaters – A Conversation","authors":"B. Roberts, M. Stephens","doi":"10.5070/t814160727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41464342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay’s Lost Novel","authors":"Nahum Welang","doi":"10.5070/t814151884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814151884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mary Church Terrell, The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Germany’s ‘schwarze Schmach’ Campaign, 1918 - 1922","authors":"Noaquia Callahan Banks","doi":"10.5070/t814155235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t814155235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45641750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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