American literature as world literature / edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Leo, Jeffrey R., editor.

Series:

Literatures as world literature.

Literatures as world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Appreciation.

American literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"For better or worse, America lives in the age of "worlded" literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective and background is itself another story. The "worlded" literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explore what it means to consider American literature as world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction / Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness. 1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness / Paul Giles (University of Sydney, Australia) ; 2. Worldings of American Literature Off the Cultural Radar / Lawrence Buell (Harvard University, USA) ; 3. Who Needs American Literature? From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors / Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization. 4. Worlds of Americana / Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA) ; 5. Political Serials: Tanner '88 to House of Cards / Emily Apter (New York University, USA) ; 6. Weltliterature? Mapping American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a 21st-Century Critical Agenda / Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) ; 7. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature / Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds. 8. Whitman's Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World Literature / Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University, USA) ; 9. Experience to Experiment, SIgns to Signals: Towards Flusser's New World / Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA) ; 10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the Literary / Alan Singer (Temple University, USA)

Part 4: History and the American Novel. 11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous Sequels / Robert Caserio (Penn State University, USA) ; 12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin's Demon of History in Just Above My Head / Daniel O'Hara (Temple University, USA) ; 13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American / Jean-Michel Rabat (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501332296

1501332295

9781501332289

1501332287

9781501332302

1501332309

OCLC:

1020567700