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28%OFFWai Chee (Ed Dimock - American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler - 9780231157377 - V9780231157377
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American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler

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Description for American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler Paperback. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee. Num Pages: 504 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
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. Through these five categories, Wai Chee Dimock and a team of emerging scholars reveal American literature to be a complex network, informed by crosscurrents both macro and micro, with local practices intensified by international concerns. Selections include poetry from Anne Bradstreet to Jorie Graham; the fiction of Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, and William ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157377
SKU
V9780231157377
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99-29

About Wai Chee (Ed Dimock
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her most recent books are Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (2007) and Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006). Editor of PMLA, and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books, her essays have also appeared in ... Read more

Reviews for American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler
An inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations.
Susan ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler


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