The Resource Through other continents : American literature across deep time, Wai Chee Dimock
Through other continents : American literature across deep time, Wai Chee Dimock
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- Summary
- "What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Through other continents : American literature across deep time
- Title
- Through other continents
- Title remainder
- American literature across deep time
- Statement of responsibility
- Wai Chee Dimock
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context."--Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dimock, Wai-chee
- Dewey number
- 810.9
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS157
- LC item number
- .D56 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- American literature
- Globalization in literature
- Comparative literature
- Comparative literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Label
- Through other continents : American literature across deep time, Wai Chee Dimock
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-236) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 62525244
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691114491
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005057723
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 9780691114491
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Through other continents : American literature across deep time, Wai Chee Dimock
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-236) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 62525244
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691114491
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005057723
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 9780691114491
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- illustrations
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