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America unbound : encyclopedic literature and hemispheric studies / Antonio Barrenechea.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826357595
  • 0826357598
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: America unbound.DDC classification:
  • 809.3/997 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.3.A45
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The great(er) American paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- From terra incognita to terra nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- Jacques Poulin's archival pathways: Volkswagen blues as discovery chronicle -- Leslie Marmon Silko's Council book: hemispheric forces in Almanac of the dead -- Greater America in the classroom: comparative literature, theory and praxis.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The great(er) American paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- From terra incognita to terra nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- Jacques Poulin's archival pathways: Volkswagen blues as discovery chronicle -- Leslie Marmon Silko's Council book: hemispheric forces in Almanac of the dead -- Greater America in the classroom: comparative literature, theory and praxis.

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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.

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