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Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature
Wai Chee Dimock
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Description for Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature
Paperback. 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? This book takes up this debate. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee; Buell, Lawrence. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 532.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press New Jersey
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691128528
SKU
V9780691128528
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About Wai Chee Dimock
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her most recent book is "Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time" (Princeton). Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. His many books include "Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and ... Read more
Reviews for Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature
"Shades of the Planet is a distinguished and challenging contribution to a growing body of criticism that seeks to internationalize the study of American writing. When English departments throughout the United States forsake old national coordinates to devote themselves to the study of all, or at least most, of the literatures written in English, something significant has happened. These essays, ... Read more