LEADER 03017nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910959015403321 005 20251116230646.0 010 $a0-8214-4215-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521647 035 $a(OCoLC)191935393 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10156415 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283722 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283722 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10249966 035 $a(PQKB)11242296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3026916 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3026916 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10156415 035 $a(BIP)35538443 035 $a(BIP)13159069 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521647 100 $a20051108d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReworlding America $emyth, history, and narrative /$fJohn Muthyala 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8214-1675-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-205) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Reworlding America -- 2 Frontier Narratives of the Americas -- 3 Pan-Caribbean Hemispheric Poetics -- 4 Border Cultures in the Borderlands -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aJohn Muthyala's Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas. By emphasizing transnational migration, border crossing, and colonial modernity, Reworlding America exposes how national, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural boundaries have been continually created and transgressed---with profound consequences for the peoples of the Americas. Drawing from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and history, Muthyala examines the literatures of the Americas in terms of their intimate relationship to questions of cultural survival, identity formation, and social power. He goes beyond nationalist, ethnocentric, and religious frameworks used to conceptualize American literary history and examines the connection between modernity and colonialism. Reworlding America's significance extends into the realm of education, history, ethnography, and literary and cultural studies and contributes to the larger project of refashioning the role of English and American studies in a transborder, postnational global culture. 607 $aAmerica$xLiteratures$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAmerica$xCivilization 676 $a809/.897 700 $aMuthyala$b John$f1966-$0607170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959015403321 996 $aReworlding America$94477903 997 $aUNINA