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Transatlantic is a volume in the Cultural Text Studies monograph series, edited here at the Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies, published by Aalborg University Press.

Transatlantic studies is an emerging field within literary, cultural and political studies. Its interdisciplinary scope, a feature it shares with other area studies fields, makes it particularly apt for AAU scholars to engage with. All European languages and cultures have significantly been shaped by their long history of interaction across the Atlantic Ocean, often antagonistically defined (as in wars and trade conflicts), but often also collaboratively defined (indeed, as in wars and trade alliances). The perspective is equally rich when seen from the Americas, where the relationship with Europe, can be variously regarded as colonial/postcolonial, or as pay-back/writing back to the ancestral cultures.

This volume sets out to investigate specific aspects of Transatlantic cultural and/or textual exchanges in any period and mode the authors see fit. We have accepted both humanities approaches and textually focused social sciences approaches. The broad scope of the volume is indeed one of its essential strengths, as all readers of it will be sure to encounter new subjects areas and insights. The aim is therefore to be inclusive rather than exclusive in this book, allowing colleagues from all programs within our broad department to contribute papers from their core research areas, whether these chiefly fall within English, Spanish, German, French or other European language areas – or whether they are chiefly linked to one or another of the Americas.

The volume is, appropriately enough, conceived as a transatlantic collaborative endeavor in its own right, as it features contributions from both AAU and Brenau University, Georgia, USA – one of our exchange partner universities.
 

Table of contents

Camelia Elias & Andrea Birch: Introduction

Camelia Elias & Bent Sørensen: Transatlantic - New Perspectives

Bent Sørensen: Images of Europe: Readings in the Transatlantic Topography of Generational Texts

Dovile Budryte and Charles Perrin: The Idea of Europe in Selected American World History Textbooks

Camelia Elias: Passage-way to Culture and Writing – Literature of Transit: Codrescu, Federman, Hoffman, and Simic

Lene Yding Pedersen: Atlanticized: Joseph O’Connor’s America

Steen Christiansen: Continuity Breach: The British Revision of the American Superhero

Marian Dolan and Kay Keels: Song of the Silenced: American Performance of Baltic Choral Music

Kay Keels: Entrepreneurship in Lithuania: Embracing a Western Tradition

Heather Gollmar Casey: The Transatlantic Flow of Morality: A Case Study of Abortion Politics

Mary Beth Looney: ‘Dove sono le donne artisti?’…and Other Questions Regarding Revisionist Art History and Italian Women

Jean Westmacott: Travels with Merrill (and the Athena Project)

Søren Hattesen Balle: ‘Crossing a Bare Common’: Emerson’s Ironic Negotiation of the Sublime

Brian Barlow: Anxiety between Europe and America: Reinhold Niebuhr and His Use of Søren Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety

Check out the introduction to the series