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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465899203321

Autore

Barrenechea Antonio

Titolo

America unbound : encyclopedic literature and hemispheric studies / / Antonio Barrenechea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8263-5759-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/997

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Mexican fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

French-Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

America 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 great(er) American paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- From terra incognita to terra nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- Jacques Poulin's archival pathways: Volkswagen blues as discovery chronicle -- Leslie Marmon Silko's Council book: hemispheric forces in Almanac of the dead -- Greater America in the classroom: comparative literature, theory and praxis.

Sommario/riassunto

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.