Obama and Transnational American Studies (eBook)

Cover 1
Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
ALFRED HORNUNG Preface???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 10
I. Transnational Family andLife Writing 18
Auma OBAMA, You Are Your Future 20
Alfred HORNUNG, Auma Obama’s Intercultural Life Writing 32
Birgit M. BAURIDL, Auma Obama Transangular: Performing Presidency between Africa, Europe, and America 42
Carmen BIRKLE, Leadership and the Visualization of African American Womanhood: Michelle Obama’s and Oprah Winfrey’s Transnational Lives 62
Xiuming HE, Michelle Obama’s Visit to China 84
Greg ROBINSON, Barack Obama: Our First Asian American President 98
II. Transnational Literaturesand Laws 110
Kristina BROSS, Laura M. STEVENS, Before Nation, Beyond Nation: The Place of “Early” in Transnational American Studies 112
Elizabeth J. WEST, We’ve Seen This Before: The Pre-Obama Transnational Figure in Early Black Atlantic Writing 134
Birgit DÄWES, Crossing Oceans: Trans-Indigenous Trajectories 152
Charles REAGAN WILSON, Exploring the South’s Creole Identity: Life Writing from the U.S. South in the Obama Era 172
Glenn T. ESKEW, Barack Obama and the American Civil Rights Movement 196
RÜDIGER KUNOW “Obama Care?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 220
III. Transnational Media 238
Mita BANERJEE, Bollywood Film and the American President(s): From George W. Bush to Barack Obama 240
Paul GILES, Obama, Tarantino, and Transnational Trauma 262
Sunhee Kim GERTZ, Das Wunder von Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union and the German Soccer Championship of 1954 280
Carola BETZEN, Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar: Politics and Hip Hop Culture 320
Udo J. HEBEL, Framing Obama: Interpictorial Iconographies of an American President 344
Gesa MACKENTHUN, Hard Choices: Obama and Snowden 370
IV. Transnational Affinities 390
Lothar VON FALKENHAUSEN, Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member’s Tale 392
Nina MORGAN, “Laws of Forgiveness”: Mandela, Obama, Derrida 408
Gerd HURM, Barack Obama and Edward Steichen: A Luxemburgian Seed and the American Liberal Presidency 434
Nicole WALLER, “Foreign in a domestic sense”: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World and Transnational American Studies 472
Jutta ERNST, Lives in Transition: Eugene Jolas’s Man from Babel, the Obama Presidency, and Transnational American Studies 488
Christa BUSCHENDORF, Freedomways: Transnationalism in the Work of Shirley Graham Du Bois 510
Contributors?????????????????????????????????????? 538
Back Cover 546