The new North American studies : culture, writing and the politics of re/cognition /

"In this study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives." "Using material from the United States and Ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Siemerling, Winfried, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Canadian literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Politics and literature > North America.
Criticism > North America.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Canadiens dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature > Amérique du Nord.
Critique > Amérique du Nord.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Civilization
Criticism
Intellectual life
Literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
Politics and literature
North America > Intellectual life.
North America > In literature.
North America > Civilization.
Amérique du Nord > Vie intellectuelle.
Amérique du Nord > Dans la littérature.
Amérique du Nord > Civilisation.
North America
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence
  • 3. W.E.B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity
  • 4. Double consciousness, African American tradition, and the vernacular : Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker
  • 5. Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation : Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor
  • 6. Genealogies of difference.

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