Shades of the Planet : American Literature as World Literature / Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buell, Lawrence, editor.

Dimock, Wai Chee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism in literature.

Geography in literature.

Globalization in literature.

Boundaries in literature.

American literature--Foreign influences.

American literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. This reversed frame yields a surprising landscape, alive with traces of West Africa, Eastern Europe, Iran, Iraq, India, China, Mexico, and Australia. The Broadway musical Oklahoma! 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset / Dimock, Wai Chee

PART ONE: The Field, the Nation, the World

Chapter 1: Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature / Arac, Jonathan

Chapter 2: The Deterritorialization of American Literature / Giles, Paul

Chapter 3: Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents / Friedman, Susan Stanford

PART TWO: Eastern Europe as Test Case

Chapter 4: Mr. Styron's Planet / Sundquist, Eric J.

Chapter 5: Planetary Circles: Philip Roth, Emerson, Kundera / Posnock, Ross

PART THREE: Local and Global

Chapter 6: World Bank Drama / Roach, Joseph

Chapter 7: Global Minoritarian Culture / Bhabha, Homi Κ.

Chapter 8: Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and Intercontinental Form / Palumbo-Liu, David

Chapter 9: Ecoglobalist Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale / Buell, Lawrence

Chapter 10: A t the Borders of American Crime Fiction / Adams, Rachel

Chapter 11: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue / Dimock, Wai Chee

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691188256

0691188254

OCLC:

1132225624