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  1. Tropical gothic in literature and culture
    the Americas
    Contributor: Edwards, Justin D. (HerausgeberIn); Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic... more

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    Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region. Section 1. Tropical undead -- Section 2. Tropical chills -- Section 3. Social and political landscapes of the tropical gothic

     

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    Contributor: Edwards, Justin D. (HerausgeberIn); Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781317425786; 9781315689999; 9781317425762; 9781317425779
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    Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 60
    Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature) ; History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) ; America; America ; In literature; Tropics ; In literature
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  2. The romance of the New World
    gender and the literary formations of English colonialism
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent... more

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    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent romance figure of the husband (subsuming the roles of soldier and merchant) embodies the ideal of productive masculinity with which Englishmen defined their identity in America, justifying their activities of piracy, trade and settlement. At the same time, colonial narratives, in putting this masculinity to the test, often contradict and raise doubts about the ideal, and these doubts prompt individual romances to a self-conscious reflection on English cultural assumptions and colonial motives. Hence colonial experience reveals not just the 'romance of empire' but also the impact of the New World on English identity Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire -- Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596) -- Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood -- Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism -- Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption -- Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida -- The Tempest, "rape," the art and smart of Virginian husbandry -- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas

     

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  3. Tropical gothic in literature and culture
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    Contributor: Edwards, Justin D. (HerausgeberIn); Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic... more

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    Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region. Section 1. Tropical undead -- Section 2. Tropical chills -- Section 3. Social and political landscapes of the tropical gothic

     

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    Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 60
    Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic revival (Literature) ; History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) ; America; America ; In literature; Tropics ; In literature
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  4. Eugene O'Neill's America
    Desire Under Democracy
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the... more

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    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the hea

     

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    Subjects: America ; In literature; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Biography; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Family relationships; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Psychology; O'Neill, Eugene ; 1888-1953 ; Criticism and interpretation; O'Neill, Eugene ; 1888-1953; Electronic books
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    Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Knowers Unknown to Ourselves; 1 · The Misery of the Misbegotten; 2 · The Playwright as Thinker; 3 · Anarchism: The Politics of the "Long Loneliness"; 4 · Beginnings of American History; 5 · "Lust for Possession"; 6 · Possessed and Self-dispossessed; 7 · "Is You a Nigger, Nigger?"; 8 · "The Merest Sham": Women and Marriage; 9 · Religion and the Death of Death; 10 · "The Greek Dream in Tragedy Is the Noblest Ever"; 11 · Waiting for Hickey; Conclusion: The Theater as Temple; Notes; Index;

  5. The pan american imagination
    contested visions of the hemisphere in twentieth-century literature
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

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    ISBN: 9780813936673
    Series: New world studies
    Subjects: Literature and globalization; Literature; Transnationalism in literature; Pan-Americanism; Literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Pan-Americanism; Transnationalism in literature; Literature and globalization; America ; In literature; Electronic books
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    Front ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mesoamerican Modernism; 2 Hemispheric Mythologies; 3 Academic Discourse at Havana; 4 Pan American Progress; 5 Pan Americanism Revisited; 6 Decolonizing the Dance; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

  6. Edmund Wilson's America
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning... more

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    When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams.In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged fr

     

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    Subjects: America ; In literature; Criticism ; United States ; History ; 20th century; National characteristics, American, in literature; United States ; Civilization; Wilson, Edmund ; 1895-1972 ; Knowledge ; United States; Electronic books
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    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Man and His World; 2. The New Wilderness; 3. Women of the Twenties; 4. The Crumbling Moral Order; 5. Two Ailing Democracies; 6. Back to the Native Ground; 7. The World of Hecate County; 8. Our National Wound; 9. The Decadence of the Democratic State; 10. The Democratic Man of Letters; 11. Upstate; Epilogue; Chronology; The Books of Edmund Wilson: A Checklist; Bibliographical Essay; Index

  7. Canada and Its Americas
    Transnational Navigations
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  MQUP, Montreal

    A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canada and Its Americas -- DEFENDING THE NATION? -- 1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas -- 2... more

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    A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canada and Its Americas -- DEFENDING THE NATION? -- 1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas -- 2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies -- 3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité -- INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA -- 4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject -- 5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull -- 6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada's Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse -- POSTSLAVERY ROUTES -- 7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama -- 8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood -- QUEBEC CONNECTIONS -- 9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas -- 10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context -- 11 Louis Dantin's American Life -- 12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia -- 13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël's La Conjuration des bâtards -- Contributors -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

     

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    Subjects: America ; In literature; Canada ; In literature; Canadian literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Culture in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books
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    ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Canada and Its Americas""; ""DEFENDING THE NATION?""; ""1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada�s Americas""; ""2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies""; ""3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité""; ""INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA""; ""4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject""; ""5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull""; ""6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada�s Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse""

    ""POSTSLAVERY ROUTES""""7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama""; ""8 “May I See Some Identification?� Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood""; ""QUEBEC CONNECTIONS""; ""9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas""; ""10 “Lucky to be so bilingual�: Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context""; ""11 Louis Dantin�s American Life""; ""12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia""

    ""13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël�s La Conjuration des bâtards""""Contributors""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

  8. America Unbound
    Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

    This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native... more

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    This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1: The Great(er) American Paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- 2: From Terra Incognita to Terra Nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- 3: Jacques Poulin's Archival Pathways: Volkswagen Blues as Discovery Chronicle -- 4: Leslie Marmon Silko's Council Book: Hemispheric Forces in Almanac of the Dead -- 5: Greater America in the Classroom: Comparative Literature, Theory, and Praxis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

     

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    Subjects: American fiction ; History and criticism; Mexican fiction ; 20th century ; History and criticism; French-Canadian fiction ; 20th century ; History and criticism; America ; In literature; Electronic books
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  9. The romance of the New World
    gender and the literary formations of English colonialism
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent... more

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    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent romance figure of the husband (subsuming the roles of soldier and merchant) embodies the ideal of productive masculinity with which Englishmen defined their identity in America, justifying their activities of piracy, trade and settlement. At the same time, colonial narratives, in putting this masculinity to the test, often contradict and raise doubts about the ideal, and these doubts prompt individual romances to a self-conscious reflection on English cultural assumptions and colonial motives. Hence colonial experience reveals not just the 'romance of empire' but also the impact of the New World on English identity Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire -- Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596) -- Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood -- Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism -- Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption -- Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida -- The Tempest, "rape," the art and smart of Virginian husbandry -- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas

     

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  10. Colonial writing and the New World, 1583-1671
    allegories of desire
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European one. Colonial Writing and the New World 1583–1671 argues for a reading of the colonial period that... more

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    Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European one. Colonial Writing and the New World 1583–1671 argues for a reading of the colonial period that attempts to render an account of both the European origins of colonial expansion and its specifically American consequences. The author offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period, and of the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. He draws on a wide variety of texts ranging from travel narratives and accounts of the colony in Virginia to sermons, conversion tracts and writings about the Algonquin language Preface -- The allegorical structure of colonial desire -- Fear and love: two versions of Protestant ambivalence -- Forging the nation: the Irish problem -- Preaching the nation -- Love and shame: Roger Williams and A Key into the Language of America -- Fear and self-loathing: John Eliot's Indian Dialogues -- Coda -- Index

     

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