The Journal of Transnational American Studies

Current Issue, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2023

Editor in Chief's Introduction

Issue Introduction: Translating and Transnational American Studies
Hornung, Alfred

Articles

Black Elk Faces East: Beb Vuyk, Cultural Translation, and John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks
Kelderman, Frank

Mark Twain on the Soviet Silver Screen: Stalinist Laughter and Antiracism in "Tom Soier"
de Oliveira, Cassio

Authenticity and Autofiction: John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess”
Glavanakova, Alexandra K.

SPECIAL FORUM: Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies

Introduction: Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies
Banerjee, Mita; Höll, Davina

Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant
Raussert, Wilfried

Jack London’s Medical Migrations to a Pan-Pacific Alliance
Hornung, Alfred

Migration in Times of Pandemic: Mark Twain’s “3,000 Years Among the Microbes” and the Prospect of Planetary Health
Höll, Davina

Hygiene, Whiteness and Immigration: Upton Sinclair and the “Jungle” of the American Health Care System
Banerjee, Mita

Stuck in the Middle With(out) You: How American Immigration Law Trapped “Defective” Immigrants Between Two Worlds
Zaves-Greene, Hannah

SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN PRIZE for INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP in TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES

Introduction to Y-Dang's Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia
Troeung, Y-Dang; Patterson, Christopher B.

Forward

Forward Introduction
Reimer, Jennifer A.

Introduction from Framing the Nation: Claiming the Hemisphere
Heide, Markus

"Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands" from Transborder Los Angeles
Tokunaga, Yu

Introduction from Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy
Stecopoulos, Harilaos

Excerpt from Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

Reprise

Nothing Synthetic about It: Translating Bob Dylan’s Domestic and International Civil Wars
Roberts, Brian Russell

Dylan
Goenawan, Mohamad; Lindsay translator, Jennifer

Bandits
Goenawan, Mohamad; Lindsay translator, Jennifer

Odysseus in Liverpool
Detering, Heinrich; Kontos translator, Hannah

On the High Art of Folk Poetry: What Jorge Luis Borges and Bob Dylan Have in Common
Cara, Ana C.

The Ever-Changin' Times and Myth of Bob Dylan
Sato, Yoshiaki; Knighton translator, Mary A.

Contributors

Contributor Bios
Managing Editor, JTAS