Shades of the Planet : : American Literature as World Literature / / Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock.

• TeilnehmendeR: Buell, Lawrence,; Dimock, Wai Chee,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate in Shades of the Planet, beginning not with the United States as center, but with the world as circumference. This reversed frame yields a surprising landscape, alive with traces of West Africa, Eastern Europe, Iran, Iraq, India, China, Mexico, and Australia. The Broadway musical Oklahoma! has aboriginal antecedents; Black English houses an African syntax; American slavery consorts with the Holocaust; Philip Roth keeps company with Milan Kundera; the crime novel moves south of the border; and R. P. Blackmur lectures in Japan. A national literature becomes haunted by the world when that literature is seen extending to the Pacific, opening up to Islam, and accompanying African-American authors as they travel. Highlighting American literature as a fold in a planet-wide fabric, this pioneering volume transforms the field, redrawing its institutional as well as geographical map.The contributors are Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Homi K. Bhabha, Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock, Susan Stanford Friedman, Paul Giles, David Palumbo-Liu, Ross Posnock, Joseph Roach, and Eric J. Sundquist.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset / Dimock, Wai Chee -- PART ONE: The Field, the Nation, the World -- Chapter 1: Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature / Arac, Jonathan -- Chapter 2: The Deterritorialization of American Literature / Giles, Paul -- Chapter 3: Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents / Friedman, Susan Stanford -- PART TWO: Eastern Europe as Test Case -- Chapter 4: Mr. Styron's Planet / Sundquist, Eric J. -- Chapter 5: Planetary Circles: Philip Roth, Emerson, Kundera / Posnock, Ross -- PART THREE: Local and Global -- Chapter 6: World Bank Drama / Roach, Joseph -- Chapter 7: Global Minoritarian Culture / Bhabha, Homi Κ. -- Chapter 8: Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and Intercontinental Form / Palumbo-Liu, David -- Chapter 9: Ecoglobalist Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale / Buell, Lawrence -- Chapter 10: A t the Borders of American Crime Fiction / Adams, Rachel -- Chapter 11: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue / Dimock, Wai Chee -- Index