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A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of the cutting-edge discipline of Comparative North American Literature. Using both literary and cultural studies to present fundamental research areas that are especially relevant to the United States and Canada, this book reshapes our conceptions of the individual countries and cultures and affirms that the concept of nation is of continuing significance.
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature
by Nischik, Reingard M.Edition: Revised
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2014-08-07
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Author Biography
Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her many books include the prize-winning Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood, History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian, and The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Reingard M. Nischik2. Imagining North America; Rachel Adams3. Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada; Sabine Sielke4. Comparing Native Literatures in Canada and the United States; Katja Sarkowsky5. Comparative Race Studies: Black and White in the United States and Canada; Eva Gruber6. Naturalization and Citizenship in North America; Mita Banerjee7. Comparative Canadian/Québécois Literature Studies; Marie Vautier8. Québécois Literature and American Literature; Jean Morency9. North America's Francophone Borderlands; Monika Giacoppe10. The Literatures of the Mexico-U.S. and Canada-U.S. Borders; Claudia Sadowski-Smith11. Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature; Florian Freitag12. The North in English Canada and Quebec; Christina Kannenberg13. North American Urban Fiction; Caroline Rosenthal14. Modernism in the United States and Canada; Jutta Ernst15. Postmodernism in the United States and Canada; Julia Breitbach16. Literary Celebrity in the United States and Canada; Lorraine York17. North American Literature and Global Studies: Transnationalism at War; Georgiana Banita
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