The Dialectics of Our America : Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History /

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Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saldívar, José David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fish, Stanley (Editor ), Jameson, Fredric (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1991]
Colección:Post-Contemporary Interventions
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • I. Metahistory and Dependency
  • 1. The Dialectics of Our America
  • 2. "Squeezed by the Banana Company": Dependency and Ideology in Macondo
  • 3. Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique
  • II. Magical Narratives
  • 4. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
  • 5. The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas's The Rain God
  • III. Caliban and Resistance Cultures
  • 6. The School of Caliban
  • Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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