Suchergebnisse

Atlantic studies prospects : complexities and singularities, flows and places -- A brief genealogy : from Atlantic history to Atlantic studies -- Caliban's scamels : from Shakespearean romance to ethnographic site -- Apple of Peru, Hester Prynne, and colonial Boston -- "A refugee from history" : Douglass's heroic slave in the Atlantic world -- From Mundus Novus to Atlantic world : three early modern world maps -- Mapping practices: word, line, image -- Conclusion: Atlantic studies and global currents.

The following set of essays consists of revised versions of contributions read at, or prepared for, a roundtable discussion at the 2009 convention of the American Studies Association in Washington, DC. The short contributions by the individual authors reflect on the boundaries, the perspectives, and the transdisciplinary dynamics of the field imaginary of transnational American Studies and the specific political role of new notions of citizenship and the parameters of a new cosmopolitanism beyond the limits of the Western tradition.