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

Joining the current debates in American literary history, Jose 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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saldívar, Jose David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Metahistory and Dependency: The Dialectics of Our America. "Squeezed by the Banana Company": Dependency and Ideology in Macondo. Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique
  • Magical Narratives. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo. The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas's The Rain God
  • Caliban and Resistance Cultures. The School of Caliban. Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible.