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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Winfried Siemerling |
| ISBN: | 0415335973 9780415335973 0415335981 9780415335980 |
| OCLC Number: | 56642256 |
| Description: | 240 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence -- 3. W. E. B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity -- 4. Double consciousness, African American tradition, and the vernacular : Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker -- 5. Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation : Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor -- 6. Genealogies of difference. |
| Responsibility: | Winfried Siemerling. |
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'Winfried Siemerling's The New North American Studies offers a fresh, critical analysis of the major figures and trends in US and Canadian criticism of the multicultural era.' - Werner Sollors, Harvard University 'This is a serious rethinking of American Studies in both method and content. It moves the debates about multi-culturalism and canon formation in exciting new directions.' - Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto 'Winfried Siemerling's exciting New North American Studies shows what a spatial hermeneutics can do when applied to certain literary and cultural inquiry: This marvelous book starts with a demarcation of the cognitive maps that frame the "New World" and the Continent of "North America" and elaborates the resources of these conceptual elements across the fields of contention that situate the emergent cultures of diasporic modernity. Its emphasis on location and relational articulations across topographical networks offers one of the first systematic comparative readings of the muti-cultures and languages of North America. A shot across the bow, it reconfigures our entire notion of an "Americas" studies.' - Hortense Spillers, Cornell University "...an important new contribution to discussions of dialogism and alterity in relation to postcolonial and racial identity, and the critical distinctions made here are clear and precise." - University of Toronto Quarterly "Siemerling's work is a valuable resource to those interested in ethnicity, identity, cultural studies, and multiculturalism in the context of North America, and it is unique in its examination of the specific Canadian situation, juxtaposing both multiculturalism and bilingualism." -Peruvemba S. Jaya, Department of Communication, University of Ottawa Read more...
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- American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Canadian literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
- Politics and literature -- North America.
- Criticism -- North America.
- North America -- Intellectual life.
- North America -- In literature.
- North America -- Civilization.
