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.

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