Through other continents: american literature across deep time
Auteur :
Dimock, Wai Chee
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691114507
Date de publication :
9 nov. 2008
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
369 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that what we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. This book contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a national or English-language context.