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The new North American studies : culture, writing and the politics of re/cognition / Winfried Siemerling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203420527
  • 9780203420522
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New North American studies.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/358 22
LOC classification:
  • PS25 .S55 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 74.25
  • HU 1080
  • HU 1121
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence -- 3. W.E.B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity -- 4. Double consciousness, African American tradition, and the vernacular : Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker -- 5. Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation : Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor -- 6. Genealogies of difference.
Review: "In this study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives." "Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier backgrounds."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence -- 3. W.E.B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity -- 4. Double consciousness, African American tradition, and the vernacular : Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker -- 5. Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation : Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor -- 6. Genealogies of difference.

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"In this study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives." "Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier backgrounds."--Jacket.

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