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.
The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
1st Edition
By Catherine Morley
January 06, 2011
This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon ...
Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': Origins
1st Edition
By Justine Tally
January 06, 2011
This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research ...
The Literary Quest for an American National Character
1st Edition
By Finn Pollard
June 18, 2010
"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and ...
Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading
1st Edition
By Helen May Dennis
September 30, 2009
Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing. Despite this, very few such novels are accepted as part of the ...
Mexican American Literature: The Politics of Identity
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Jacobs
September 17, 2009
Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, ...
Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892
1st Edition
By Colleen G. Boggs
January 29, 2009
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the ...