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基本説明
This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places.
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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, Jose Marti, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.
Contents
List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Deterritorialization of American Literature 1 Part One: Temporal Latitudes Chapter 1: Augustan American Literature: An Aesthetics of Extravagance 29 Restoration Legacies: Cook and Byrd 29 The Plantation Epic: Magnalia Christi Americana 42 New World Topographies: Wheatley, Dwight, Alsop 55 Chapter 2: Medieval American Literature: Antebellum Narrativesand the "Map of the Infinite" 70 Emerson, Longfellow, and the Longue Duree 70 "Medieval" Mound Builders and the Archaeological Imagination 86 Hawthorne, Melville, and the Question of Genealogy 97 Part Two: The Boundaries of the Nation Chapter 3: The Arcs of Modernism: Geography as Allegory 111 Postbellum Cartographies: William Dean Howells 111 Ethnic Palimpsests, National Standards 120 "Description without Place": Stevens, Stein, and Modernist Geographies 125 Chapter 4: Suburb, Network, Homeland: National Spaceand the Rhetoric of Broadcasting 141 "Voice of America": Roth, Morrison, DeLillo 141 Lost in Space: John Updike 154 The MTV Generation: Wallace and Eggers 161 Part Three: Spatial Longitudes Chapter 5: Hemispheric Parallax: South Americaand the American South 183 Rotating Perspectives: Bartram, Simms, Marti 183 Regionalism and Pseudo-geography: Hurston and Bishop 199 Mississippi Vulgate: Faulkner and Barthelme 212 Chapter 6: Metaregionalism: The Global Pacific Northwest 223 Reversible Coordinates: The Epistemology of Space 223 Orient and Orientation: Snyder, Le Guin, Brautigan 232 Virtual Canadas: Gibson and Coupland 242 Conclusion: American Literature and theQuestion of Circumference 255 Works Cited 269 Index 305
