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This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume's engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples that allow for an exploration of concrete manifestations of this phenomenon and trace its development within and outside the United States. Contributors consider the ways in which artifacts or manifestations of American culture have traveled and what has happened to the texts in the process, in.

To begin here -- The Asian childhood : writing beginnings -- Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure -- The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position -- Citizens or denizens : inscribing the tropes of Asian North Americanization -- In North America : formulating experience -- The childhood for children : the cultural experience of the early reader -- Conclusion : rewriting the childhood

Introduction : Aesthetic practices and politics in media, music, and art / Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux -- Border crossings and (trans)nationalism in film. Paradigms of attitudes towards immigration : science fiction films as allegories in the mid-century / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- No country for old certainties : ambivalence, hybridity, and dangerous crossings in three borderland films / Page Laws -- Bodies and hybrid tropes : border crossings in recent films / Cathy Covell Waegner -- From alien nation to alienation : tracing the figure of the guest worker in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand / Tessa C. Lee -- "Lunch with the bigot" : 9/11 in Bollywood's filmic imagination / Mita Banerjee -- Migrant adaptations in television. Invisible ethnicity : Canadian erasure, vanishing Dutchness / Aritha van Herk -- Performing linguistic identity and integration : the politics of interpellation in the Catalonian media / Klaus Zilles -- The trans/migrant in the spotlight : space and movement in Brazilian telenovelas / Gundo Rial y Costas -- Traveling sounds : music and migration. Migratory objects in the Balkans : when the sound of the other sounds strangely familiar / Maria Boletsi -- Variations on a fugitive's song : the performance of disappearance and forced migration in Chile / Nicols Salazar-Sutil -- Immigration and modernism : Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles émigrés / Kenneth H. Marcus -- Performing ethnicity and migration : cultural and artistic practices. Ethnic nostalgia : ethnicity as cultural practice in the twenty-first century / Marcus Embry -- Connoisseurs of urban life : aesthetic practices and the everyday among Japanese migrants in New York City / Olga Kanzaki Sooudi -- "All islands connect under water" : Ping Chong's Undesirable elements series / Roberta De Martini