The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature
Editor/Author
Nischik, Reingard M.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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$195.00

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$292.50
ISBN: 978-1-349-49006-6
Category: Language & Literature - American literature
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
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Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Section 1 Charting the Territory
- 1 Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts: Introduction - Reingard M. Nischik
- 2 Imagining North America - Rachel Adams
- Section 2 Perspectives on Multiculturalism
- 3 Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada - Sabine Sielke
- 4 Comparative Race Studies: Black and White in Canada and the United States - Eva Gruber
- 5 Comparing Indigenous Literatures in Canada and the United States - Katja Sarkowsky
- 6 Naturalization and Citizenship in North America - Mita Banerjee
- Section 3 French-Language and English-Language Cultures in North America
- 7 Comparative Canadian/Québécois Literature Studies - Marie Vautier
- 8 Québécois Literature and American Literature - Jean Morency (Translation: Jo-Anne Elder)
- 9 North America's Francophone Borderlands - Monika Giacoppe
- Section 4 Regions and Symbolic Spaces
- 10 The Literatures of the Mexico-US and Canada-US Borders - Claudia Sadowski-Smith
- 11 Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature - Florian Freitag
- 12 The North in English Canada and Quebec - Christina Kannenberg
- 13 North American Urban Fiction - Caroline Rosenthal
- Section 5 National, Transnational, Global Perspectives
- 14 Modernism in the United States and Canada - Jutta Ernst
- 15 Postmodernism in the United States and Canada - Julia Breitbach
- 16 Literary Celebrity in the United States and Canada - Lorraine York
- 17 North American Literature and Global Studies: Transnationalism at War - Georgiana Banita
- Contributors
- Works Cited