02439nam 2200541 450 991079866170332120230808195016.00-8263-5759-8(CKB)3710000000840667(EBL)4562660(MiAaPQ)EBC4562660(OCoLC)952200299(MdBmJHUP)muse54012(Au-PeEL)EBL4562660(CaPaEBR)ebr11251415(CaONFJC)MIL950116(EXLCZ)99371000000084066720160412h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAmerica unbound encyclopedic literature and hemispheric studies /Antonio BarrenecheaAlbuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5758-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.American fictionHistory and criticismMexican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFrench-Canadian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmericaIn literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Mexican fictionHistory and criticism.French-Canadian fictionHistory and criticism.809.3/997Barrenechea Antonio1462288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798661703321America unbound3671212UNINA