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Papers by Alfred Hornung

BRILL eBooks, Dec 31, 1997

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies

Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology lends itself to an analysis of autobiographies by the Japa... more Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology lends itself to an analysis of autobiographies
by the Japanese Canadian scientist-ecologist David Suzuki, the
ethnographer-sociologist Claude Lévy-Strauss and the humanist Michel de
Montaigne. This figurational reading focuses on their contact with Indigenous
peoples in the Americas and their transformation of life writing from an
individualist Eurocentric perspective to a longed for reversal of Elias’s
established-outsider relation..

China Daily , 2024

Upon the establishment of European universities in the Middle Ages, the educational system in Wes... more Upon the establishment of European universities in the Middle Ages, the educational system in Western countries became characterized by an essentially Eurocentric worldview. This was reflected in the study of Latin and Greek in high school, and in basing public life and political systems on philosophies of classical antiquity. The work of the influential Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-478 BC), a near-contemporary of the major Greek philosophers Socrates (469-399 BC), Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC) whose ethical and political ideas entered into the constitutions of European states, remained unknown. This aerial photo taken on June 8, 2023 shows the Nishan Sacredland in Qufu City, the birthplace of Confucius, east China's Shandong Province.

Journal of Transnational American Studies, May 28, 2023

The last issue of JTAS focused on global experiences of teaching or living transnational American... more The last issue of JTAS focused on global experiences of teaching or living transnational American studies abroad, recognizing the need to transnationalize. This issue presents regular articles and essays of a special forum which look at the United States from an external perspective that represents critical observations about internal cultural affairs and historical conceptions of the American nation state. The first two articles present the unusually perceptive position of American activists and writers abroad discriminated against at home as people of color. Mary Church Terrell's dedicated engagement in international peace work and her courageous stand as an African American woman intellectual for a diversified evaluation of African soldiers in the French army occupying the German Rhineland after the First World War are an excellent demonstration of transnational American studies, expertly analyzed by Noaquia Callahan Banks. Terrell's own experience of racist profiling at home allows her, as the only colored member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, to reject the stereotypical accusation of Black men raping white women advanced by the German population for political reasons and automatically shared by her colleagues. In the same way in which Terrell's two-year experience in Europe and her knowledge of German and French gave her an edge over her mostly monolingual and monocultural companions, the Afro-Caribbean writer and naturalized American Claude McKay profited from his experiences in Europe and Northern Africa. It is particularly his encounter with Communism in the Soviet Union, which paraded him as a favored exotic fellow believer, and his critical distance from Leninist Internationalism that entered into his last novel, unpublished during his lifetime. As Nahum Welang's conclusive interpretation shows, McKay departed from the Communist ideology and defended the African resistance against Soviet interventions in the Ethiopian war: "McKay has more faith in the prospects of a Pan-Africanist alliance than collaboration with the Stalinite agents of Soviet Russia" ("Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay's Lost Novel," this volume, p. 41). McKay's and Terrell's transnational

Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies Alfred Hornung and Nina Morgan Collabora... more Introduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies Alfred Hornung and Nina Morgan Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Shelley Fisher Fishkin Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean Paul Giles Worlding America and Transnational American Studies Oliver Sheiding Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity Brian Russell Roberts The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons Mina Karavanta The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies William Nessly Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom Karim Bejjit Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures Birgit Dawes The Assembling of Trans-Indigenitude Through International Circuits of Poetry G...

Handbook of the American Short Story, 2022

Journal of Transnational American Studies

Multiculturalism in Transit

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2021

When Shelley Fisher Fishkin launched the Transnational American Studies idea as president of the ... more When Shelley Fisher Fishkin launched the Transnational American Studies idea as president of the ASA in Atlanta in 2004, it was welcomed and embraced especially by international members of the Association and enhanced the cooperation with their American colleagues and exchange partners. Seventeen years after the start of Shelley's idea and its fruitful pursuit since 2009 in the Journal of Transnational American Studies we know that the field of American Studies has changed substantially by putting the transnational rather than the national at the center of investigations. One of the motivations for this new transnational direction of American Studies was the growing contribution of non-American Americanists worldwide to the American research agenda and the recognition of their fields of expertise in a changed research environment in which collaboration would be most promising for gaining new insights. This new issue of The Journal of Transnational American Studies is a very effective demonstration of transnational collaboration and its progress. No doubt, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's long-time occupation with the worldwide acceptance of Mark Twain and his work has inspired her move from the national to the transnational, reflected in her acclaimed publications and collaboration with non-American Twain scholars. In her lead article in The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, she relates the history of her "Collaboration in Transnational American Studies" from 2005 on. 1 The Special Forum on "Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in this issue, coedited with colleagues from four different countries, Tsuyoshi Ishihara from Japan, Ronald Jenn from France, Holger Kersten from Germany, and Selina Lai-Henderson from China, together with contributions from scholars in nine world regions on four continents, is a major statement on the progress of collaboration in Transnational American Studies. The focus of these articles on Mark Twain's major novel and its

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, 2019

American Literature, 2006

Alfred Hornung ''Unstoppable'' Creolization: The Evolution of the South into ... more Alfred Hornung ''Unstoppable'' Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space ... with Mario Vargas Llosa's The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man with Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Katherine Anne Porter's ...