Dean Acheson and the potato head blues; or, British academic attitudes to America and its literature / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- One more window to the world : American literature in Bulgaria / Natalia Klissourska -- Progress and problems : American literary studies in China during the post-Mao era / Xiao-huang Yin -- The American within : Danes and American literature / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- American literature in France : pleasures in perspective / Marc Chénetier -- Stepping out of Hitler's shadow to embrace Uncle Sam? : notes toward a history of American literary studies in West Germany / Hans-Peter Wagner -- (Mis)understanding America's literary canon : the Greek paradigm / Savas Patsalidis.

The counterlife : Israeli perspectives on American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- A place for all : old and new myths in the Italian appreciation of American literature / Michele Bottalico -- Cultural colonization? : American literary studies in Japan / Keiko Beppu -- No country is an island : some aspects of American literature in Mexico / Federico Patán -- Cutting loose : American literary studies in the Netherlands / Theo D'haen -- Catching up : the Polish critical response to American literature / Elżbieta Foeller-Pituch -- Apartheid defines the contours of American literary studies in southern Africa / Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane -- The dual canon : a Swedish example / Rolf Lundén.