The Routledge companion to transnational American studies Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors Preface Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies Note Bibliography 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Introduction Coda Notes Bibliography PART I: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the transnational: Transatlantic transpacific and antipodean Introduction Notes Bibliography 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies Introduction Transnational American Studies as relational studies Transnational connectivity and the early Americas Conclusion Notes Bibliography 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An open and comparative insularity Introduction Notes Bibliography 5. The transnational poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous affiliations and impossible comparisons Introduction Notes Bibliography 6. The Pacific turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Boundaries history and debates The transnational turn the immigrant and US imperialism US centric approaches and Japanese imperialism The polycentric transpacific Notes Bibliography PART II: Culture and performance: Histories and reciprocities 7. Cultural performance and Transnational American Studies Concepts and crossroads Antebellum African American performances of August 1 German American encounters and epistemologies of embodied performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography 8. The Barbary frontier and transnational allegories of freedom Introduction Refashioning Barbary The Barbary frontier in American drama Conclusion Notes Bibliography 9. Stages of crossing: Transnational Indigenous futures Acts of mapping: Cambodia Kassel.