American Studies Over_Seas 1: Narrating Multiple America(s)

Edgardo Medeiros da Silva, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at the School of Social and Political Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa and a researcher in American Studies with ULICES—ULisboa Centre for English Studies. Margarida Vale de Gato, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the areas of translation and U.S. literature in the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where she coordinates the American Studies program.Mário Avelar, PhD, is Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where he is the head of the English Department and director of the PhD and MA programs in this field.Irene Maria F. Blayer, PhD, is Full Professor at Brock University. Her research includes comparative Romance linguistics, linguistic ethnography, diaspora studies, im/migrant narrative discourse, and identity construction. Dulce Maria Scott, PhD, is Full Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Anderson University. Her research has focused on immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States, including immigrant women, Hispanic ethnic entrepreneurship in central Indiana, and Portuguese Americans.Tony McGowan, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at West Point, where he co-directs the Diversity and Inclusion minor. He teaches American literature and critical theory, and his most recent publication on Melville appeared in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

“The volumes propose cutting-edge research within the field of American Studies, with knowledgeable and perceptive approaches into the subject of transnational and transatlantic relations. It is hard to imagine a collection of essays that would assemble a larger number of different approaches and platforms.” —Stefan L. Brandt, Professor of American Studies, University of Graz, Austria

• Acknowledgments – Introduction by the Editors – Maria Leonor Telles: Seafaring as a Background for Narrative: From Epic to Magic Realism – Maria Zina Gonçalves De Abreu: Transatlantic Migration of Early Modern England Demonology Doctrines and Mindset to Colonial America – Ana Kocić Stanković: Representations of "the Other" in Melville’s Typee and American Colonial Literature – Steffen Wöll: "True Places Never Are": Navigating Transoceanic Imaginations in Moby-Dick – Rute Beirante: Transatlantic Stories: Herman Melville’s Diptychs Over the Sea – Maria Antónia Lima: The Blackness of Whiteness in Melville’s Gothic Sea – Erik Van Achter: Tekeli-li: Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym and Johnson’s Pym – Fernanda Luísa Feneja: The Individual and the Group: Allegory Revisited in Stephen Crane’s "The Open Boat" – Ana Barroso: Once upon a Time in the West: Nature, No-Places and a Journey. A Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian through the Lenses of Moby- Dick – Isabel Caldeira: Liquid Grave, or Route to Freedom? Edwidge Danticat’s "Children of the Sea" – Mike Flynn: Moral Injury in Moby-Dick – Catarina Pombo Nabais: Creation and Its Conditions: Bartleby’s Creative Power Through the Lens of European Metaphysics – Cecilia Beecher Martins: Bartleby: "A Bit of Wreck" Lost at Sea as Captain Ahab? – Tony McGowan: Reification Poetics in the Late Poetry of Whitman and Melville – M. Irene Ramalho-antos: Sailing the Word: Poets. Scholars. Constellations – Isabel Fernandes: Recovering Touch in D. H. Lawrence’s "The Blind Man" and Raymond Carver’s "Cathedral" – Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves: "Hours for the Soul": Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman’s and Mary Oliver’s Seascapes – Konstantinos Blatanis: The Significance of the Sea in Eugene O’Neill’s Early Work: The Formation of a Chronicle of Change – José Duarte: As Ilhas Encantadas (1965): Melville and the Portuguese "Novo Cinema" – Mário Avelar: Transatlantic Debunkings of History: Frank O’Hara and Jorge de Sena – Maria José Canelo: Shaping the Visuality of the "American Century" in Life Magazine through the Lenses of Women Photographers – Shelley Fisher Fishkin: The Transnational Travels of "Global Huck" – Teresa Seruya: The German Language Travels Overseas: How Mark Twain and Abbas Khider Experienced this "Awful Language" – Rita Queirozde Barros/Alexandra Assis Rosa: English as a Global Language and Attitudes on Multilingualism: A Critical Discussion – Eduarda Melo Cabrita/Maria Luísa Falcão/IsabelFerro Mealha: The Immigrant Experience: An MI Approach to "A Wife’s Story" by Bharati Mukherjee – Ricardo L. Ortiz: America, Overseas? Alternative Circulations of the Global in U.S. Latinx Literature After Empire – Winfried Fluck: Crossing National Borders: American Exceptionalism and Transnational American Studies – Notes on Contributors – Index.