American studies after American exceptionalism? : toward a comparative analysis of imperial state exceptionalisms / Donald E. Pease -- Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin -- Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin -- Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. Thompson -- Chronotopes of a dystopic nation: cultures of dependency and border crossings in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Transpacific complicity and comparatist strategy: failure in decolonization and the rise of Japanese nationalism / Naoki Sakai -- War in several tongues: nations, languages, genres / Wai Chee Dimock -- Neo-orientalism / Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams -- American studies in motion: Tehran, Hyderabad, Cairo / Brian T. Edwards