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Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon /
Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordina...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1994.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organiz. |
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| Description: | "The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (351 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822382645 |