LEADER 04634nam 22007093u 450 001 9910792089603321 005 20230120033855.0 010 $a1-280-05864-1 010 $a0-203-42052-7 010 $a1-283-60447-7 010 $a9786613916921 010 $a1-134-30748-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000092980 035 $a(EBL)201212 035 $a(OCoLC)475914015 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5298119 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000092980 100 $a20130418d2012|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe New North American Studies$b[electronic resource] $eCulture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition 210 $aHoboken $cTaylor and Francis$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-33597-3 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; New World returns; "Who cuts the border?": national approaches, comparative literature, postcolonial studies; Cultural difference and national canons; Orality and emergence; 2 Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence; The "newness" of the New World; From conscience excluante to the anxieties of comparison; Sacvan Bercovitch and the inclusions of dissent; E. D. Blodgett: dialogues of reorigination and negotiation 327 $aPierre Nepveu and the (re)reading of national culture3 W. E. B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity; Du Bois and Hegelian teleology; "Assimilation" and recognition; Relation and non-transparency; 4 Double consciousness, African American tradition, and thevernacular: Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker; Doubled doubles: the sentence of tradition and double consciousnessin Henry Louis Gates; Democratic blues: Houston Baker and the representation of culture; 5 Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation: Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor; Anti-imperial translation 327 $aThomas King, Coyote, and Columbus: "two different dimensions oftime or consciousness"Gerald Vizenor: the postindian and The Heirs of Columbus; 6 Genealogies of difference; Multiculturalisms, transculturalism, difference in North (of) America; From narratives of emergence to transculture: Parti pris and Vice Versa; Charles Taylor, desire, and the limits of self-certainty; Cultural difference: the future of an illusion?; Notes; References; Index 330 $aWinner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.In this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier ba 606 $aAmerican literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc 606 $aAmerican literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc 606 $aCanadian literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc 606 $aCriticism - North America 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature 606 $aNorth America - Civilization 606 $aNorth America - In literature 606 $aNorth America - Intellectual life 606 $aPolitics and literature - North America 606 $aTheory, etc 615 4$aAmerican literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. 615 4$aAmerican literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc. 615 4$aCanadian literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. 615 4$aCriticism - North America. 615 4$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 4$aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature. 615 4$aNorth America - Civilization. 615 4$aNorth America - In literature. 615 4$aNorth America - Intellectual life. 615 4$aPolitics and literature - North America. 615 4$aTheory, etc. 676 $a810.9/358 676 $a810.9358 700 $aSiemerling$b Winfried$0876672 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792089603321 996 $aThe New North American Studies$93851658 997 $aUNINA