A complex web of exchanges between individuals and cultures, contemporary transnationalism engages with discourses ranging from performed identity to global politics, cultural belonging to alienation. In exploring these issues, transnational works struggle with the definition and dissolution of borders, obscuring seemingly evident divisions—be they political, cultural, or linguistic—by illuminating the intersections and flows of human exchange. In doing so, they also express a form of discontent, one that emerges when places and moments commonly understood as borders are revealed to be always already repositioned and redefined the moment we approach them. Transnationalism and its Discontents: Exploring Critical Approaches to Border-space aims to catalyze new forms of critical engagement in the areas of transnational literature, culture, discontent, and border-space.