Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?Duke University Press, 1990 - 394 páginas This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as "New World" literature, examining it in relation to its "Old World"--usually European--counterparts. This collection of essays redirects the Eurocentric focus of earlier scholarship and identifies a distinctive pan-American consciousness. The essays here place the literature of the Americas in a hemispheric context by drawing on approaches derived from various schools of contemporary critical thought--Marxism, feminism, culture studies, semiotics, reception aesthetics, and poststructuralism. As part of their search for a distinctly New World literary idiom, the contributors engage not only the major North American and Spanish American writers, but also such "marginal" or "minor" literatures as Chicano, African American, Brazilian, and Québecois. In identifying areas of agreement and confluence, this work lays the groundwork for finding historical, ideological, and cultural homogeneity in the imaginative writing of the Americas. Contributors. Lois Parkinson Zamora, David T. Haberly, José David Saldívar, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, José Piedra, Doris Sommer, Enrico Mario Santí, Eduardo González, John Irwin, Wendy B. Faris, René Prieto, Jonathan Monroe, Gustavo Pérez Firmat |
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... suggests the novelty , and even the irreverence , of such moves . The fact is that the field of inter - American literary studies is something of a terra incognita . Other than a few pioneering influence studies , scholarly forays in ...
... suggests the novelty , and even the irreverence , of such moves . The fact is that the field of inter - American literary studies is something of a terra incognita . Other than a few pioneering influence studies , scholarly forays in ...
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... suggest how difficult it would be to answer the title , both because of the scope of the question and because of the terms in which it is couched . The idea of a common literature , like that of a common history , may not be a ...
... suggest how difficult it would be to answer the title , both because of the scope of the question and because of the terms in which it is couched . The idea of a common literature , like that of a common history , may not be a ...
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... suggest the difficulties of inter - American compa- rative studies , particularly if they are broadly generalizing in intent . The very inadequacies of the terms " North ... suggests my comparative History in U.S. and Latin American Fiction.
... suggest the difficulties of inter - American compa- rative studies , particularly if they are broadly generalizing in intent . The very inadequacies of the terms " North ... suggests my comparative History in U.S. and Latin American Fiction.
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Gustavo Pérez Firmat. The term " inter - American " suggests my comparative context , but it too may be misleading ... suggest the complexity of our comparative enterprise here , as well as the ways in which our American identities have ...
Gustavo Pérez Firmat. The term " inter - American " suggests my comparative context , but it too may be misleading ... suggest the complexity of our comparative enterprise here , as well as the ways in which our American identities have ...
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... suggest the ways in which that heritage has been - must be - assimilated in order to be useful in America . It suggests , furthermore , the essential historical and historio- graphic concerns of many of her successors . Flannery O ...
... suggest the ways in which that heritage has been - must be - assimilated in order to be useful in America . It suggests , furthermore , the essential historical and historio- graphic concerns of many of her successors . Flannery O ...
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