CONSTELLATING AMERICAS

Review of International American Studies
Revue d’Études Américaines Internationales
RIAS Vol. 9, Fall–Winter № 2/2016
ISSN 1991–2773
CONSTELLATING AMERICAS
EDITORS
Editor-in-Chief: Cyraina Johnson-Roullier
Associate Editors: Paweł Jędrzejko, Giorgio Mariani, György ‘George’ Tóth
Senior copyeditor: Meghan McKinney
TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN Hanna Traczyk / M-Studio s. c.
ISSN 1991–2773
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Amy Kaplan, Maureen Montgomery, Enikő Bollobás, Ulf Hannerz, Sun Youzhong,
Jørn Brøndal, Amanda Lagerkvist, Christopher Saunders, Theo D’Haen, Liam
Kennedy, Sieglinde Lemke, Ian Tyrell, Helmbrecht Breinig, Rosario Faraudo,
Djelal Kadir, Anders Olsson.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Cyraina Johnson-Roullier
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Cyraina Johnson-Roullier
INTRO
CONSTELLATING AMERICAS
Giorgio Mariani
RIAS Editor-in-Chief
IASA President
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FEATURES
THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL
5
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Chien-Ting Lin
RE-SIGNIFYING “ASIA” IN THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN
27
OF ASIAN/AMERICAN STUDIES
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
MONEY, POWER, AND IMMIGRANT SONS
45
IN CHANG-RAE LEE’S NATIVE SPEAKER:
Looking for the American Father
Zilá Bernd
71
UNPREDICTABLE AMERICAS:
Resignifying Americanness Under a Relational Perspective
Kryštof Kozák
87
JOYFUL TANKS MEET GAY POET.
Commemorating Liberation by ‘America’
END/NOTES
in the Age of Global War on Terror
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ABSTRACTS AND NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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