The dialectics of our America : genealogy, cultural critique, and literary history / Jose David Saldivar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saldívar, José David.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Literatures--History and criticism.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Joining the current debates in American literary history, José 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 culture, one more responsive to the geographical ties and political crosscurrents of the hemisphere than to narrow national ideologies. Saldívar pursues this goal through an array of oppositional critical and creative practices. He analyzes a range of North American writers of color (Rolando Hinojo

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9786612904196

9781282904194

1282904191

9780822381709

0822381702

OCLC:

850214902