Introduction: recognizing transnational American studies / Alfred Hornung and Nina Morgan -- Collaboration in transnational American studies / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Theorizing transnational American studies. Reorienting the transnational: transatlantic, transpacific, and antipodean / Paul Giles -- Worlding America and transnational American studies / Oliver Sheiding -- Archipelagic American studies: an open and comparative insularity / Brian Russell Roberts -- The transnational poetics of Edward Said: dangerous affiliations & impossible comparisons / Mina Karavanta -- The Pacific turn: transnational Asian American studies / William Nessly -- Culture and performance: histories and reciprocities. Cultural performance and transnational American studies / Birgit Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink -- The Barbary frontier and transnational allegories of freedom / Karim Bejjit -- Stages of crossing: transnational indigenous futures / Birgit Dawes -- The assembling of trans-indigènitude through international circuits of poetry / Gloria E. Chacon -- Traveling sounds: Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers / Sabine Kim -- Translating texts and transnationalizing contexts. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: or, Poe's other transnationalism / Emron Esplin -- Confucius and America: the moral constitution of statecraft / Alfred Hornung -- Translations of American cultural politics into the context of postwar Japan / Hiromi Ochi -- A mixed legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna's A Jjapanese nightingale / Yoshiko Uzawa -- Gender and transnational American studies / Sarah Ruffing Robbins -- Ethiopianism, gender, and transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood / Elizabeth West -- Transnationalism, autobiography and criticism: the spaces of women's imagination / Isabel Durán -- Political imaginaries and transnational images of the political iconography, interpictoriality, and transnational American Studies / Udo J. Hebel -- The visual aesthetics of politicians and their transatlantic influence / Karsten Fitz -- Lincoln in Africa / Kevin Gaines -- Laws of forgiveness: Mandela, Obama, Derrida / Nina Morgan -- Visual intertextuality and transnational American studies: revisiting American exceptionalism / Rob Kroes -- Post-truth = post-narrative? reading the narrative liminality of transnational right-wing populism / Sebastian M. Herrmann -- American realities: a European perspective on Trump's America / Liam Kennedy -- Remapping geographies and genres. The performance of American popular culture: rhetoric and symbolic forms in American western movies / Boris Vejdovsky -- Border encounters: theorizing the US-Mexico border as transa / Jennifer A. Reimer -- Transnational and intersectional implications of the Intifada / Denijal Jegic -- Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez's transterritorial challenge to American studies as usual / Mary A. Knighton -- Post-apocalyptic geographies and structural appropriations / Hsuan l. Hsu and Bryan Yazell -- Thinking after the hemispheric: "the planetary expanse of transnational American writing" / Takayuki Ttatsumi..