LEADER 04617nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910780862603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-46322-5 010 $a9786612463228 010 $a1-4008-2952-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400829521 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006982 035 $a(EBL)539787 035 $a(OCoLC)700687112 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12461413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11016880 035 $a(PQKB)10616411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443324 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11287979 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443324 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10455712 035 $a(PQKB)11424675 035 $a(OCoLC)703587645 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36467 035 $a(DE-B1597)446535 035 $a(OCoLC)979581677 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400829521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL539787 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10359254 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC539787 035 $a(dli)HEB30517 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012245696 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006982 100 $a20080910e20092006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThrough other continents$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican literature across deep time /$fWai Chee Dimock 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2006. 311 $a0-691-11449-8 311 $a0-691-11450-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Planet as Duration and Extension -- $tChapter 1. Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents -- $tChapter 2. World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam -- $tChapter 3. The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution -- $tChapter 4. Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James -- $tChapter 5. Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound -- $tChapter 6. Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War -- $tChapter 7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue -- $tChapter 8. Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context. 606 $aAmerican literature$xForeign influences 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGlobalization in literature 606 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aAmerican literature$xForeign influences. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGlobalization in literature. 615 0$aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 676 $a810.9 700 $aDimock$b Wai-chee$f1953-$01016755 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780862603321 996 $aThrough other continents$92380624 997 $aUNINA