Dimock, Wai Chee  | Princeton Univ Pr

66,130원  | 20120504  | 9780691114507

What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature.

Dimock, Wai Chee  | Princeton

39,000원  | 20061002  | 9780691114491

"What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument ofThrough Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin toGilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock invokes the duration and extension of the planet as her coordinates, arguing that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole.

Dimock, Wai-Chee  | Princeton

78,560원  | 19910201  | 9780691015095

""Empire for Liberty" is one of the most important studies of Melville to appear in many years and it sets the terms for critical debate about his work for many years ahead."--Richard Poirier, Editor, "Raritan Quarterly"

Dimock, Wai Chee (EDT)/ Buell, Lawrence (EDT)  | Princeton

71,410원  | 20070326  | 9780691128528

In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate in Shades of the Planet, beginning not with the United States as center, but with the world as circumference.

Dimock, Wai Chee (EDT)/ Buell, Lawrence (EDT)  | Princeton

0원  | 20070326  | 9780691128511

In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate inShades of the Planet, beginning not with the United States as center, but with the world as circumference. This reversed frame yields a surprising landscape, alive with traces of West Africa, Eastern Europe, Iran, Iraq, India, China, Mexico, and Australia. The Broadway musicalOklahoma!has aboriginal antecedents; Black English houses an African syntax; American slavery consorts with the Holocaust; Philip Roth keeps company with Milan Kundera; the crime novel moves south of the border; and R. P. Blackmur lectures in Japan. A national literature becomes haunted by the world when that literature is seen extending to the Pacific, opening up to Islam, and accompanying African-American authors as they travel. Highlighting American literature as a fold in a planet-wide fabric, this pioneering volume transforms the field, redrawing its institutional as well as geographical map.The contributors are Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Homi K. Bhabha, Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock, Susan Stanford Friedman, Paul Giles, David Palumbo-Liu, Ross Posnock, Joseph Roach, and Eric J. Sundquist.

Dimock, Wai-Chee, Brower, Jordan (EDT), Garcia, Edgar (EDT), Hutzler, Kyle (EDT), Rinehart, Nicholas (EDT)  | Columbia University Press

67,560원  | 20170131  | 9780231157377

American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.