Across Currents: Connections Between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies

<p>This book explores connections between Atlantic studies and (trans)Pacific studies including the potential discursive topical and historical overlaps of the two fields. It carves out mutual concerns and theoretical affinities but also divergent approaches and differences. While acknowledging the fundamental differences that characterize the individual fields the essays in this volume examine how both Atlantic and (trans)Pacific studies are part of global currents of political activist artistic economic and academic exchange. This volume brings together voices from Europe North America and the Pacific with disciplinary backgrounds in history culture and literature. Directed at scholars with a background in (trans)Pacific and/or Atlantic studies this collection is an attempt to stimulate exchange between the two fields to intensify their impact within the current transnational focus of literary and cultural studies to encourage the questioning of well-mapped paths of inquiry and to outline new theoretical approaches to both fields. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Atlantic Studies</i>.</p>