American literature as world literature
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American literature as world literature
（Literatures as world literature）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, c2018
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For better or worse, America lives in the age of “worlded” literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective and background is itself another story. The “worlded” literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explore what it means to consider American literature as world literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness
1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness
Paul Giles (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Worldings of American Literature Off the Cultural Radar
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University, USA)
3. Who Needs American Literature? From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization
4. Worlds of Americana
Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA)
5. Political Serials: Tanner ’88 to House of Cards
Emily Apter (New York University, USA)
6. Weltliterature? Mapping American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a 21st-Century Critical Agenda
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
7. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature
Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds
8. Whitman’s Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World Literature
Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University, USA)
9. Experience to Experiment, SIgns to Signals: Towards Flusser’s New World
Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA)
10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the Literary
Alan Singer (Temple University, USA)
Part 4: History and the American Novel
11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous Sequels
Robert Caserio (Penn State University, USA)
12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin’s Demon of History in Just Above My Head
Daniel O’Hara (Temple University, USA)
13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
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