Introduction: Perspectives on Transnational American Cultures / Rocío G. Davis
1. Mapping American Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Perspectives / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Part I Broadening the Frame
2. Transnational Spaces and Black American Identities in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark / Jopi Nyman
3. Remembering What to Forget: Memory as Transnational Practice in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Silvia Schultermandl
4. Transnational and Transcultural Exchanges in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books / Pin-Chia Feng
Part II The Cross-Fertilization of Culture
5. "I Used to Like Gangsters and Newspaper Films, But I'm Not So Sure Now": The Hollywood Dreams of Jessie Matthews and the British Film Industry / James Stone
6. Postcommunist American Dreams in Romanian Music / Ioana Luca
7. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan Revisited: Musical "Authenticity" and Transnational Adaptations of Country and Folk Music / Monika Mueller
Part III Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Canonical Writing
8. "I Just Want To Go Home": Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama and Disturbed American Transnationalism / Alison Lutton
9. "Vagabond Internationalism:" The Transnational Life and Literature of Claude McKay / Bairbre Walsh
10. Multiculturalism with Transnationalism: Food Scenes as Contact Zones / Samir Dayal
Part IV Narratives of Travel and Migration
11. Intersecting Atlantic Trajectories in Junot Diaz's and Edwidge Danticat's Stories / Ana Ma Manzanas
12. Spheres of Influence in Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation: The Classroom, the Blog, and the Ethnic Story / Monica Chiu
13. Hospitality Across the Atlantic: American Guests and the International Space of Flows in Spielberg's The Terminal and Frears's Dirty Pretty Things / Jesus Benito.