The Cambridge companion to transnational American literature / edited by Yogita Goyal.
Goyal, Yogita, editor.
2017
PS169.T73 C36 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to transnational American literature / edited by Yogita Goyal.
ISBN 9781107085206 (hardcover)
1107085209 (hardcover)
9781107448384 (paperback)
1107448387 (paperback)
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description xxxv, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS169.T73 C36 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/355
Summary "For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature in relation to ethnic, postcolonial, and hemispheric studies. Leading scholars open up wide-ranging examinations of transnationalism in American literature - through form and aesthetics, theories of nation, gender, sexuality, religion, and race, as well as through conventional forms of historical periodization. Offering a new map of American literature in the global era, this volume provides a history of the field, key debates, and instances of literary readings that convey the way in which transnationalism may be seen as a method, not just a description of literary work that engages more than one nation. Contributors identify the key modes by which writers have responded to major historical, political, and ethical issues prompted by the globalization of literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Goyal, Yogita, editor.
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction: The transnational turn / Yogita Goyal
Part I. Shape of the field
Unsettling American literature, rethinking nation and empire / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
American literature, world literature / Wai Chee Dimock
The transnational turn and postcolonial studies / Yogita Goyal
Transnational aesthetics / Russ Castronovo
Part II. Literary histories
Transnationalism and nineteenth-century literature Johannes Voelz
Transnational modernisms / Jessica Berman
Transnational postmodern and contemporary literature / David James
Part III. Critical geographies
Black Atlantic and diaspora literature / Destiny O. Birdsong and Ifeoma Nwankwo
Borders and borderland literature / John Alba Cutler
American Indian transnationalisms / Jodi A. Byrd
Pacific Rim and Asian American literature / Viet Nguyen
Hemispheric literature / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Part IV. Literature and geopolitics
Transnational feminism / Crystal Parikh
Queer transnationalism / Petrus Liu
Islam and transnationalism / Timothy Marr.

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