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  1. The dialectics of our America
    genealogy, cultural critique, and literary history
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Duke Univ. Press, Durham [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822381709; 9780822311614; 0822311615; 0822311690
    RVK Categories: HU 1520 ; HU 1727 ; IQ 00307
    Series: Post-contemporary interventions
    Subjects: Amerikaans; Letterkunde; Literatur; Kulturerbe; Chicanos; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. The dialectics of our America
    genealogy, cultural critique, and literary history
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American culture, one more responsive to the geographical ties and political crosscurrents of the hemisphere than to narrow national ideologies. Saldívar pursues this goal through an array of oppositional critical and creative practices. He analyzes a range of North American writers of color (Rolando Hinojo

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0822381702; 0822311690; 0822311615; 9780822381709; 9780822311690; 9780822311614
    Series: Post-contemporary interventions
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xvii, 213 p), 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index

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    Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; I Metahistory and Dependency; 1 The Dialectics of Our America; 2 "Squeezed by the Banana Company": Dependency and Ideology in Macondo; 3 Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique; II Magical Narratives; 4 The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; 5 The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas's The Rain God; III Caliban and Resistance Cultures; 6 The School of Caliban; Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, and the Politics of the Possible; Notes; References; Index