Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. BOOKS BY PAUL GILES xi
6. INTRODUCTION: THE EVOLUTION OF CRITICAL TRANSNATIONALISM 1
7. PART I AMERICAN STUDIES
8. CHAPTER 1 RECONSTRUCTING AMERICAN STUDIES: TRANSNATIONAL PARADOXES, COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 19
9. CHAPTER 2 TRANSNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE 44
10. CHAPTER 3 POST- LIBERALISM: GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES 53
11. CHAPTER 4 E PLURIBUS MULTITUDINUM: THE NEW WORLD OF JOURNAL PUBLISHING IN AMERICAN STUDIES 66
12. CHAPTER 5 HISTORICIZING THE TRANSNATIONAL: ROBERT COOVER, KATHY ACKER AND THE REWRITING OF BRITISH CULTURAL HISTORY, 1970–1997 108
13. PART II LITERATURE
14. CHAPTER 6 F. O. MATTHIESSEN: COMPARATIVE CRITICISM AND THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE 141
15. CHAPTER 7 HENRY JAMES ATHWART: DETERRITORIALIZATION IN THE SACRED FOUNT 152
16. CHAPTER 8 “THE MAGNET ATTRACTING”: DREISER’S LITERARY STYLE 163
17. CHAPTER 9 THE LITERARY CULTURE OF COLONIAL AMERICA: THEOLOGY AND AESTHETICS 181
18. CHAPTER 10 THE ABJECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: JAMAICA KINCAID AND THE GHOSTS OF POSTCOLONIALISM 202
19. PART III RELIGION
20. CHAPTER 11 CATHOLIC IDEOLOGY AND AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVES 235
21. CHAPTER 12 THE INTERTEXTUAL POLITICS OF CULTURAL CATHOLICISM: TIEPOLO, MADONNA, SCORSESE 248
22. CHAPTER 13 “LIKE A BLACK BELL”: HENRY CARLILE AND THE NEGATIVE THEOLOGY OF PLACE 267
23. CHAPTER 14 THE SPRINGSTEEN AFFECT: RELIGION IN AMERICAN STUDIES 285
24. INDEX 307