[PDF] The Cambridge Companion To Transnational American Literature eBook

Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316982629

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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.

Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107095379

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This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.

Author : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108841902

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Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

Author : John Morán González
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107044928

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This Companion presents key texts, authors, themes, and contexts of Latina/o literature and highlights its increasing significance in world literature.

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110743467X

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This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.

Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107083958

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This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316298981

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This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

Author : Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828134

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W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.

Author : Michele Elam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316240096

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This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the 'post-race' transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.

Author : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108815277

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This Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition of 'literature', a transnational, settler colonial comprehension of America, and a more-than-green definition of 'environment'. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and such fields as Black feminism, food studies, decolonial activism, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, and carceral studies, the volume reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the increasingly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities, while also modeling practices of literary reading shaped by this interdisciplinary turn. The result is a volume that will prove indispensable both to students seeking an overview of American environmental literature/criticism and to established scholars seeking new approaches to the field.