Aspects of Transnationality in American Literature and American English

Aleksandra Izgarjan, Dubravka Đurić and Sabina Halupka-Rešetar (Editors) ASPECTS OF TRANSNATIONALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND AMERICAN ENGLISH Novi Sad 2020 ALEKSANDRA IZGARJAN, DUBRAVKA ĐURIĆ AND SABINA HALUPKA-REŠETAR EDITORS ASPECTS OF TRANSNATIONALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND AMERICAN ENGLISH Novi Sad 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY IN NOVI SAD 21000 Novi Sad Dr Zorana Đinđića 2 www.ff.uns.ac.rs For the Publisher Prof. dr Ivana Živančević Sekeruš Serbian Association for Anglo-American Studies ASPECTS OF TRANSNATIONALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND AMERICAN ENGLISH Electronic edition ISBN: 978-86-6065-632-4 Cover image: T-Glas REVIEWERS OF THE VOLUME Tatjana Bijelić, Full professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka Tatjana Glušac, Associate professor, Faculty of Law and Business Studies Dr Lazar Vrkatić, Union University, Novi Sad Stipe Grgas, Full professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb REVIEWERS Maja Ćuk, Associate professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Niš Arijana Cvijanović Luburić, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Uni- versity of Novi Sad Sonja Filipović Kovačević, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Uni- versity of Novi Sad Vladislava Gordić Petković, Full professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad Tatjana Jukić, Full professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Magdalena Koch, Full professor, The Institute of Slavic Philology, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań Ksenija Kondali, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo Sanja Krimer Gaborović, Associate professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Novi Sad Marija Krivokapić, Associate professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Montenegro Marija Lojanica, Assistant professor, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Univer- sity of Kragujevac Sergej Macura, Assistant professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Bel- grade Sanja Manojlović, Foreign language instructor, Faculty of Business and Law, Union – Nikola Tesla University Ljubica Matek, Assistant professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Scienc- es, University of Osijek Mira Milić, Associate professor, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad Biljana Mišić Ilić, Full professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Associate professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska – Lincoln Aleksandra Nikčević Batričević, Full professor, Faculty of Philology, Univer- sity of Montenegro Višnja Pavičić Takač, Full professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sci- ences, University of Osijek Darja Pavlič, Assistant professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Tomislav Pavlović, Associate professor, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Kragujevac Petar Penda, Full professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka Timothy Petete, Full professor, University of Central Oklahoma Danijela Petković, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš László B. Sári, Associate professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Scienc- es, University of Pécs Jelena Šesnić, Full professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Sanja Šoštarić, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sa- rajevo Miško Šuvaković, Full professor, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singi dunum University, Belgrade Biljana Vlašković Ilić, Associate professor, Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac Bojana Vujin, Associate professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad Radojka Vukčević, Full professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Bel- grade Aleksandra Vukotić, Assistant professor, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade Aleksandra Žeželj Kocić, Independent scholar, Belgrade COPYRIGHT NOTICE All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing from the author, as the holder of the copyright. NAPOMENA O AUTORSKOM PRAVU Sva prava su zaštićena. Nijedan deo ove publikacije ne može se preštampati, reprodukovati ili upotrebiti u bilo kom obliku ili na bilo koji način bez pisanog odobrenja autora, kao nos- ioca autorskog prava. This project was funded by the Office of Public Affirs, United States Embas- sy Belgrade. The Office of Public Affairs. United States Embassy Belgrade, or the United States Government neither endorses nor takes responsibility for the content of this project. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ 7 Dubravka Đurić, Aleksandra Izgarjan, Sabina Halupka-Rešetar, Introduction .......................................................................................... 8 TRANSNATIONALIZATION AND TRAVELLING CULTURES ............ 27 Carmen Birkle, “Obama Sushi” and the Ch(i)ang Way of Life: Transculturating America and the World ....................................................................... 28 Réka M. Cristian, Transnational Encounters in a Selection of Works by Tennessee Williams .............................................................................................. 59 Aleksandra Izgarjan, Poetics of Translation in the Works of Contemporary Transcultural American Writers ................................................................................ 74 Jelena Šesnić, Margaret Fuller, America’s First Transnational Romantic ................. 91 Slađana Stamenković, The Transnational Memory of Violence: Terrorism and Identity in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man .............................................................. 109 TRANSNATIONALITY, (SELF)REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES, SPACE AND IDENTITY POLITICS .............................................. 127 Sanja Runtić and Ivana Drenjančević, “Witnessing Beyond Recognition”: An Existentialist Reading of Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border ......................................................................................... 128 Mirna Ćurić, Rading Space and Identity in Sandra Cisnero’s The House on Mango Street ..................................................................................... 158 Sanja Manojlović, Images of the Other in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss ........ 183 Aleksandra Žeželj Kocić, Towards Transnational Identification: Hemingway’s Revision of Africa ................................................................................................ 200 Jovana Petrović, Space in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit ................................................ 221 Vladimir M. Vujošević, Transnational Condition and Spatial Control: (De)sacralization of Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “This Blessed House” ............................. 244 Ivana Dejanović, The Image of Post-War Serbia in Jelena J. Dimitrijević and Helen Leah Reed’s Writings ....................................................................... 260 INTERMEDIALITY/TRANSMEDIALITY AND NARRATIVE PRODUCTION ................................................................................ 276 Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, Becoming Visible: On the Role of Pictures in Michelle Obama’S Becoming .......................................................................................... 277 Dubravka Đurić, (Trans)nationalism and American Feminist Experimental Writing ....299 Kalina Maleska, Encounters of Cultures in Climate Change Narratives ..................... 314 Selma Jerković Veseljević, (Trans)nationalism of Super-Hero Films .......................................... 330 TRANSNATIONALITY IN LINGUISTICS ............................................. 351 Ljiljana Knežević and Sabina Halupka-Rešetar, What Causes the Scarce Use of Dictionaries in ESP Courses? A Qualitative Analysis of the Teachers’ Perspective ........................ 352 Olga Panić Kavgić, Transnationality in Language: Translated Titles of Recent U.S. Films Depicting Distinctly American Topics ................................... 372 Contributors .............................................................................................. 392 Reviews of Aspects of Transnationality in American Literature and American English ............................................................................. 399 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the American Embassy in Belgrade for its fi- nancial support for the publication of the Book of abstracts and this volume. In particular, we are grateful to Ms. Vukica Stanković, Cultural Affairs Spe- cialist, for her patience and help throughout the process of grant application and the preparation of this volume and to Mr. Tim Standaert, Counselor for Public Affairs, for his understanding when we had to cancel the conference and modify the terms of the agreement. A special note of thanks goes to the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad for agreeing to publish this volume and for their support in bringing it to the public. We are particularly indebted to the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, professor Ivana Živančević Sekeruš and to the Head of the Department of English Studies, professor Ivana Đurić Paunović. We would also like to express our gratitude to our colleagues who are members of the Serbian Association for American Studies (SAAS) and the Association for American Studies in South East Europe (AASSEU) for their support and cooperation through the years. This year, the Serbian Association for Anglo-American Studies celebrates thirteen years of work

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