Catalina Florina Florescu is professor in the English Department at Pace University.Sheng-mei Ma is professor of English at Michigan State University.

The collection of essays in Professors Catalina Florescu and Sheng-Mei Ma’s volume suggest that we are locals among locals in local societies making up the global mix. As locals, we are each one; locals throughout the globe, are equally one; communities of locals, make up the global; and the global is, though becoming increasingly complex, one. One yet many, many yet one. The sooner we learn to embrace the global as well as the set of all locals, the less we will blindly practice our knowing ignorance, our ignorantly presumed knowing. Perhaps then and only then, if we are fortunate, we may come to know enlightenment. This volume is indeed a timely read, given our current milieu.

• Prologue — Margarita GeorgievaIntroduction — Catalina Florina Florescu1.Mobility, Virality, and Security in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission — Tim Gauthier2.Mothers Without Frontiers and Their Affective Maps in The Flower Bridge by Thomas Ciulei and Code Unknown by Michael Haneke — Oana Chivoiu3.Flowering Exile: Chinese Disaspora and Women’s Autobiography — Da Zheng4.Diasporic Iranian Writing in English — Sanaz Fotouhi 5.Cultural Hermeneutics: Andrei Codrescu as “The Romanian who translated himself into an American” — Christene D’Anca6.The Forked Tongue of Chinese-English Translation at MSU (Mandarin-Speaking University?), circa 2015 — Sheng-mei Ma7.El Mundo Zurdo de Gloria Anzaldúa: Healing Sueños of Nepantlera Activism — Mary Louisa Cappelli8.Transnational Perspectives on Romanian Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Ioana Baetica Morpurgo’s Imigrantii — Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru9.Disabling the Binaries, Enabling the Boundaries: Home-Abroad Divide in the European Migration Crisis — Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi10.“Strike Their Roots into Unaccustomed Earth” in an Era of New Genetics: Diasporic Identity Politics and Genealogy Re-Considered in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” — Hsin-Ju Kuo11.Cracked Spaces in-between Brackets: An Analysis of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dicte´e and Trinh Minh-ha’s elsewhere, within here — Winnie Khaw12.“[F]oreigners, foreigners, my God”: Language and Cinema in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight — Yanoula Athanassakis13.Mise en abîme with My Immigrants — Catalina Florina Florescu Epilogue: Immigration, Transformation, Innovation — Maria Hadjipolycarpou