The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458183403321
• Autore: Giles Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-96451-8; 9786612964510; 1-4008-3651-4
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/32
• Soggetti: American literature - History and criticism; Geography in literature; Boundaries in literature; Space in literature; Regionalism in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Electronic books.; United States In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul ; Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.

Language, Nation, Race : Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) / / Atsuko Ueda

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910598075503321
• Autore: Ueda Atsuko
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University of California Press, 2021; Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• ISBN: 9780520381728; 0520381726
• Edizione: [1 ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
• Collana: New Interventions in Japanese Studies ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 306.44/952
• Soggetti: Japanese language - Reform - Meiji period, 1868-1912; Language policy - Japan - Meiji period, 1868-1912; Nationalism - Japan - Meiji period, 1868-1912; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; Anthologies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. “Pre-Nation” -- 1. Competing “Languages” -- 2. Sound, Scripts, and Styles -- 3. Zoku as Aesthetic Criterion -- Part II. Race and Language Reform -- Introduction -- 4. Racializing the National Language -- 5. Tropes of Racialization in the Works of Natsume Sōseki -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when ";national language"; (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses with the new forms of Western knowledge. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the ";nation,"; for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. ; Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that arose in the 1990s and that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.