A Companion to American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Paul Lauter

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 710
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.

* Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more

* Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter

* Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices

* Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature

✦ Table of Contents

A COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 23
Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study......Page 29
1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States......Page 31
2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America......Page 48
3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism......Page 62
4 Academicizing “American Literature”......Page 79
5 Cold War and Culture War......Page 94
6 Re-Historicizing Literature......Page 118
7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons......Page 132
Part B Writers and Issues......Page 145
8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now......Page 147
9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion......Page 165
10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment......Page 182
11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres......Page 201
12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers......Page 214
13 “Indians” Constructed and Speaking......Page 228
14 Sentiment and Style......Page 243
15 Transcendental Politics......Page 259
16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy......Page 272
17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers......Page 306
18 Race and Literary Politics......Page 338
19 American Regionalism......Page 350
20 Magazines and Fictions......Page 361
21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature......Page 376
22 The Maturation of American Fictions......Page 386
23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms......Page 399
24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners......Page 416
25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South......Page 432
26 Writers on the Left......Page 449
27 From Objectivism to the Haight......Page 463
28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art......Page 480
29 Drama in American Culture......Page 500
Part C Contemporary Theories and Practices......Page 513
30 Constructions of “Ethnicity” and “Diasporas”......Page 515
31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and “Homeland Security” in Ethnic American Literature......Page 530
32 Feminisms and Literatures......Page 550
33 Blackness/Whiteness......Page 585
34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity......Page 598
35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Infl uence of the Environmental Justice Movement......Page 615
36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature......Page 630
37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature......Page 644
38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating the Mythological Foundations of the Master Fiction of the Homeland Security State......Page 659
Afterword......Page 677
Index......Page 679

✦ Subjects

Литературоведение;Изучение зарубежной литературы;Литература США;