Nationalism and literature : the politics of culture in Canada and the United States
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Nationalism and literature : the politics of culture in Canada and the United States
（Cambridge cultural social studies）
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-203) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: cultural fields and literary use
- 2. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in the United States
- 3. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in Canada
- 4. The canonical novels: the politics of cultural nationalism
- 5. The literary prize-winners: revision and renewal
- 6. The bestsellers: the economics of publishing and the convergence of popular taste
- 7. Literary meaning and cultural use
- Appendices.
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