ABSTRACT

This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from francophone Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Hawaii, Jamaica, South Korea and Japan - Cultural Studies of Transnationalism ranges across literary, film, dance, theatrical and translation studies to explore the socially material and institutional factors that not only shape transnational developments in culture broadly understood, but also frame the academic and professional spaces in which we reflect on these.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Transnationalism and Cultural Studies

chapter |20 pages

Interpreting Transnational Cultural Practices

Social discourses on a Korean drama in Japan, Hong Kong, and China

chapter |19 pages

Negotiating a Common Transnational Space

Mapping performance in Jamaican Dancehall and South African Kwaito

chapter |20 pages

Beyond Ethnicity, Into Equality

Re-thinking hybridity and transnationalism in a local play from Hawai'i 1

chapter |15 pages

Translating the Transnational

Teaching the ‘Other' in translation

chapter |21 pages

Transgeographical Practices of Marronage in Some African Films

Peck, Sissako and Téno, the new griots of new times?