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• Lauter, Paul

Titel

A companion to American literature and culture

Auflage

1st ed

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• A COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study; 1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States; 2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America; 3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism; 4 Academicizing "American Literature"; 5 Cold War and Culture War; 6 Re-Historicizing Literature; 7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons; Part B Writers and Issues; 8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now
• 9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment; 11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres; 12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers; 13 "Indians" Constructed and Speaking; 14 Sentiment and Style; 15 Transcendental Politics; 16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy; 17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers; 18 Race and Literary Politics; 19 American Regionalism; 20 Magazines and Fictions; 21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature
• 22 The Maturation of American Fictions23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms; 24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners; 25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South; 26 Writers on the Left; 27 From Objectivism to the Haight; 28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art; 29 Drama in American Culture; Part C Contemporary Theories and Practices; 30 Constructions of "Ethnicity" and "Diasporas"; 31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and "Homeland Security" in Ethnic American Literature; 32 Feminisms and Literatures; 33 Blackness/Whiteness
• 34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Infl uence of the Environmental Justice Movement; 36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature; 37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature; 38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating the Mythological Foundations of the Master Fiction of the Homeland Security State; Afterword; Index
• This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more * Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter * Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers an
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