Caroline F. Levander

Where is American Literature?

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What is American literature's purpose, and does it continue to have enduring value? Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to arguably the most muscular and robust nation on the world stage over the past 100 years, and demonstrates why we still need it. Levander challenges the very idea of American literature, placing it in a globalized context, and even subtly undermining the notion of the author. Refusing to speak of American Literature as a body of work, Levander instead sees the genre as a varied and unrelated assortment of multilingual forms,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-118-33977-0
EAN: 9781118339770
Produktnummer: 16383117
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'592 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Caroline F. Levander is the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Carlson Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of English at Rice University. Levander is author of, amongst others, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1998, paperback reprint 2009), and Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois (Duke University Press, 2006).