Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
About the Book Series
In an age of globalisation, it has become increasingly difficult to characterise the United States as culturally and linguistically homogenous and impermeable to influences from beyond its territorial borders.
This series seeks to provide more cosmopolitan and transnational perspectives on American literature, by offering:
in-depth analyses of American writers and writing literature by internationally based scholars
critical studies that foster awareness of the ways in which American writing engages with writers and cultures north and south of its territorial boundaries, as well as with the writers and cultures across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism
1st Edition
By Polina Mackay
September 25, 2023
This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writers associated with the Beats – Diane di Prima, ruth weiss and Anne Waldman – as well as on ...
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
1st Edition
By Silvia Schultermandl
May 31, 2023
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, ...
Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By John C. Havard, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
May 31, 2023
The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during the Spanish–American War. However, scholarship on literary connections between the two nations has been limited aside from a few studies of the small ...
Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction
1st Edition
By Peter Ferry
September 27, 2018
Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York authors do not simply depict masculinity as a social and historical construction but seek to challenge the...
Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture: Children of Empire
1st Edition
By Denis Jonnes
February 06, 2018
Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread ...
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism: Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Aparajita Nanda
February 06, 2018
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the ...
Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature
1st Edition
By Emma Staniland
February 06, 2018
This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic ...
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
February 06, 2018
This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ...
Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression
1st Edition
By Stephen Fender
February 05, 2018
Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation’s cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression ...
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture: Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment
1st Edition
By Ana Manzanas, Jesús Benito Sanchez
February 05, 2018
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and ...
Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time
1st Edition
By Will Norman
May 31, 2017
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical ...
The Transnationalism of American Culture: Literature, Film, and Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Rocío Davis
May 31, 2017
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples ...