Open to anyone with an interest in historical and contemporary movements of people, ideas, cultures and goods across boundaries. The aim is to encourage interdisciplinary conversations on a wide range of topics of transnational and global significance. These may include but are not necessarily limited to migration, trade, development, empire, consumption, food, sport, languages, literature, religion, technology, sexuality, law, health and environment.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38(1): 170-180. in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThis discussion of Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kāvya Literature (2014), a magisterial contribution to South Asian literature edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, and Gary Tubb, situates this work within broader trends within the discipline of comparative literature and cross-cultural poetics. I consider how this volume…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in post-9/11 America” in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 2 days agoAmerican Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which recognizes them as rights-bearing citizens, within a culture they claim as their own. To better understand how the post-9/11 state is reshaping American Islam, I examine the case of Muslim American dissident Tarek Mehanna, sentenced to…[Read more]
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Ralph P. Locke deposited ‘Aida’ and Nine Readings of Empire in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis paper assesses nine prominent readings of the imperial context/content of Verdi’s ‘Aida’ and offers a new perspective more adequate to basic tensions in the work. Readings have ranged from the literal (imperial Europe here stages an archaeological “ancient Egypt”) to the metaphorical (“Egypt” here is any repressive government). Or–somew…[Read more]
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Ralph P. Locke deposited Beyond the exotic: How in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoCommentators often express disappointment that the music for the main characters in _Aida_ is not more distinctive, i.e., does not make much use of the exotic styles that mark the work’s ceremonial scenes and ballets. It has also been argued that exotic style-elements here are mostly confined to female, hence powerless, characters. Such…[Read more]
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Lori Morimoto deposited “Transnational Media Fan Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Suzanne Scott and Melissa Click, eds. (forthcoming in 2017, Routledge) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoThe terms ‘fandom’, ‘fan’, and even ‘fan studies’ appear to be, at first glance, self- evident. But considered in the context of both fan cultures and scholarship outside the English language-centered West, we begin to see the assumptions that underlie them. Whether we are talking about Japanese fans of manga and anime (somewhat codified it…[Read more]
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Markus Huss deposited The Linguistic Outlaw: Peter Weiss’s Return to German as Literary Language in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThe chapter examines the German and Swedish language author Peter Weiss’s linguistic re-orientation in early postwar Sweden. Particular attention is devoted to metaphors of language and intermedial dynamics.
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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